Well versed Women raise their voices in the nation of poets
Oct 08, 2021
3 minutes
By Lizzy Davies
When Hawa Jama Abdi was eight years old, she got lost in a forest and found herself in the path of a hyena. Many people would have run, some would have frozen – but Jama Abdi, the blind daughter of Somali pastoralists, kept her cool, and composed her first poem. The verse ran:
I lived in fear of you, day and night
It is a miracle world if I am standing in front of
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