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March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba
Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

November 15, 2022

The Mystery of Sofia Samatar

The enigmatic American-Somali novelist, poet, and academic on her new memoir The White Mosque, literary hybridity, and the “dystopian hypocrisy” of social media.
Diriye Osman
Sofia Samatar by PETER A. DUFFY for WIRED

June 27, 2022

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance From

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

December 11, 2021

Shugri Said Salh on Writing Her Life in the Somali Desert

The debut author and nurse on her new memoir The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert, the multiplicity of life, and the potential of stories.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Shugri Salh by Michael Woolsey.

July 23, 2021

Warsan Shire’s First Full-Length Poetry Collection Out in 2022

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head will arrive 11 years after her first chapbook Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Warsan Shire - Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

July 19, 2021

“We Once Belonged to the Sea”

In the Somali writer’s debut novel, a tense dynamic between a gifted reclusive lesbian artist and her punk hijabi protégé.
Diriye Osman
Diriye Osman - We Once Belonged to the Sea.

June 14, 2021

In The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed Gives Life to Mahmood Hussein Mattan

The Somali-British writer’s third novel revisits a real-life wrongful murder conviction, 70 years ago in Cardiff.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed.

March 28, 2024

Momtaza Mehri for Open Country Mag.

Momtaza Mehri’s Fluid Diasporas

Having traversed regions, her poetry, including the Forward Prize-winning Bad Diaspora Poems, interrogates a race- and class-conscious world — and her place in it as a Muslim Somali woman.
Iheoma Uzomba

November 15, 2022

Sofia Samatar by PETER A. DUFFY for WIRED

The Mystery of Sofia Samatar

The enigmatic American-Somali novelist, poet, and academic on her new memoir The White Mosque, literary hybridity, and the “dystopian hypocrisy” of social media.
Diriye Osman

June 27, 2022

Diriye Osman by Diriye Osman

Where Diriye Osman Draws His Flamboyance From

With his queerness and community as shield, the Somali writer is the rare artist who considers himself art. “We can be as weird and wonderful and brilliant and badass as we want to be,” he says in his first in-depth interview in eight years.
Uzoma Ihejirika

December 11, 2021

Shugri Salh by Michael Woolsey.

Shugri Said Salh on Writing Her Life in the Somali Desert

The debut author and nurse on her new memoir The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert, the multiplicity of life, and the potential of stories.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

July 23, 2021

Warsan Shire - Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Warsan Shire’s First Full-Length Poetry Collection Out in 2022

Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head will arrive 11 years after her first chapbook Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth.
Ernest Ogunyemi

July 19, 2021

Diriye Osman - We Once Belonged to the Sea.

“We Once Belonged to the Sea”

In the Somali writer’s debut novel, a tense dynamic between a gifted reclusive lesbian artist and her punk hijabi protégé.
Diriye Osman

June 14, 2021

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed.

In The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed Gives Life to Mahmood Hussein Mattan

The Somali-British writer’s third novel revisits a real-life wrongful murder conviction, 70 years ago in Cardiff.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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