A performance featuring UK based spoken word artists Shane Solanki and Yusra Warsama. Shanes parents were born in Nairobi, and his grandparents in India. Yusra was born in UAE, and her parents in Somalia. Their poetry is concerned with the politics of identity and the meaning of belonging. In An Ocean Apart, the personal journeys of both poets are woven into the fictional story of a couple who fall in love despite their cultural differences.
A somali! wooot!
iwasrain 3 years ago