Diasporic Voices: A Conversation with Aamna Mohdin, Salma Ibrahim, Samatar Elmi, and Muna Dahir Afrax

Location
Oxford House Derbyshire St London E2 6HG
Category
Black History Month, Cultural events, Pay to attend, Workshops and activities
Date(s)
Tuesday 21st October 2025 (20:00-22:00)
Contact
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Description
Kayd in collaboration with Tower Hamlets Council, will be celebrating four Somali-British writers and their recently-published creative works: Aamna Mohdin, and her recent memoir Scattered: The Making and Unmaking of a Refugee; Salma Ibrahim and her debut novel Salutation Road; Samatar Elmi and his debut poetry collection The Epic of Cader Idris; and Muna Dahir Afrax, who edited the English translation Maana-faay, by her late father Mohamed Dahir Afrax.
The event will be hosted by Prof. Katherine Baxter, Professor of English Literature at Northumbria University. Her research engages with colonial and postcolonial histories and literatures of the Somali region.