In a deeply personal struggle, the past that Aamna Mohdin had stopped thinking about after arriving in the UK at the age of seven began to tear at the identity she had woven for herself during the subsequent two decades. Photo: Bloomsbury
In a deeply personal struggle, the past that Aamna Mohdin had stopped thinking about after arriving in the UK at the age of seven began to tear at the identity she had woven for herself during the subShow more
'I forgot that I had lived in a refugee camp. How does someone do that?'
In a new book, a leading reporter on Europe's migrant crisis faces up to the reality that her own early childhood home had been Kakuma, the UNHCR settlement in Kenya, after fleeing the Somali war. Here is an extract