Igiaba Scego was born in Rome in 1974 to Somali parents who took refuge in Italy following a coup d’état in their native country, where her father served as foreign minister. She is a writer and a journalist, holds a Ph.D. in education (on postcolonial subjects), and has done extensive academic work in Italy and around the world. Among her books, Beyond Babylon has been translated by PEN/Heim Grant winner Aaron Robertson.
Igiaba Scego
Articles by Igiaba Scego
from Beyond Babylon
They’d told her to go there and make no detours. Because that was where people refashioned their dreams. That was where people found all the Somalis again.