I Have a Home, There Is a We: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land
“I Have a Home, There Is a We, whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to win the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature.....The book explores the poet’s life as a migrant in Germany: linguistic and cultural alienation, nostalgia, and longing for his homeland on the island of Pemba. These poems form a catalog of sorrow and love addressed to the family he left behind, to the children whose roots “he tore forcefully from the ground” in hopes of offering them a better life, and above all to the country he calls home, using the deeply resonant Swahili term “kwetu”—our place—named over and over again as Zanzibar” - Publisher









