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the speaker obliges us to face (and hear) some of the many racist comments we so often hear (and face… or, perhaps, even make): the refugees have become “ dirty immigrants”, “ niggers with their hands out” who “ smell strange”, “ savage” and they are accused of “ sucking our country dry”. And yet she knows that she, having made it out, is in a privileged position compared to those who were forced to stay behind.

This paper focuses on some literary representations of the Somali civil war, in selected Somali poets, which shed light on Somalis' experiences and struggles in the civil war era.

The collection is almost like an extension of the narrator’s family portrait, tracing impassioned stories of members leaving, revealing themselves to one another, and approaching moments of reckoning. Back before time was recorded in paper, this necessary flight seemed to not be refuted, after all, there was war after war in every piece of land.

Bantu Homelands were a product of the Apartheid system that ruled South Africa, as part of automating ‘Divide and Conquer’ between Black ethnic groups, resulting in the loss of citizenship and ancestral land.If you would like to read more poetry or are intrigued by the words, definitely check Warsan Shire out, she's amazing and I'm in awe of her talent. These works do not restrict the war to images of bloodshed but also provide images of Somalis who strive to confront the violence and look forward to a peaceful Somalia. It rarely got physical, but the emotional wounds grew gangrenous as years went by especially because every part of my body got sensitive to the words and behaviour. i really enjoyed "grandfather's hands," though perhaps it's odd to like to think about grandparents touching. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

This paper is divided in four sections: an introduction to Shire's work and her background, a section analyzing the link between manhood and war followed by its " counterpart " , a third part discussing sisterhood and feminism, and a fourth part with conclusions. This notion of oceanic relationality lends itself to analyses of the work of Somalian-British poet Warsan Shire. The cases started peaking in the areas around where she was working and South Africa saw mortality rates accelerate there in Cape Town.

With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.