My life experience

Abdi Huhumed Maalim

It was a eime? when I was in the bush. That eime whole of my family are living together in the bush. That place was much different than in the refugee camps. After I grew old and my father died my mother and brother and sister and I migrated to Kenya. That time when I was in the bush I only knew how to drink milk, but when I came in the refugee really I was surprised, how can I survive in a place without milk for drinking?

But finally I realized that without drinking milk my life can still survive and now I believe even if I see people drinking milk sometimes I wonder, I ask myself does this person miss any other thing to drink instead of drinking milk? While before I only knew how to drink milk, so my point to the story is that each and everybody can really survive any land or life or environment in the earth.

And the story ??? pointing to my arrival of this camp and I am much appreciating to the position I was today while my lifetime began from bush area.

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  • Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Tongueless, Lau Yee-wa’s thriller sketching Hong Kong’s slide toward linguistic totalitarianism, is forthcoming from Feminist Press.

  • In addition to becoming the Berlin LitFest’s first curator-in-residence, Helon Habila has also just received Kaduna Books and Art Festival’s KabaFest Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his "exceptional writing and significant contributions to the development of literature globally."

  • Congratulations to Enah Johnscott, whose film Half Heaven won three awards at the Cameroon International Film Festival—best film, best director, and best cinematographer.

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

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