In early 2021, a photograph in marvellous colour became viral on social media. Gen Z, mostly diasporic Africans, were hooked by its timeless appeal. It seemed to us a carefully choreographed Instagrammable shot taken during a throwback summer along the turquoise shores of the Côte d’Azur or the Cyclades.
Abdullah Geelah
In 1928, Somali seafarer Ibrahim Ismaa’il wrote an autobiography, extracts from which were published, some forty years later, by British-Ethiopian historian Richard Pankhurst in the journal Africa (32:2, 1977). It is one of the earliest accounts of life as a Somali seaman in Britain and arguably the first work of Anglo-Somali literature.
In The British Mosque, Shahid Saleem suggests that the Cambridge Central Mosque ‘marks a step change in the narrative of British mosque design’.