Identity and Belonging

Jemal Mohamed Elmi lives in Kebri Beyah Woreda in the Fafan Zone’s refugee camp area, near Jijiga—what the locals call ‘Jigjiga’—in Ethiopia’s Somali Region. Every morning, he opens his shoe shop close to his home. The shop is modest: flip-flops and slippers arranged in neat rows on simple shelves.. This story is written and edited […]

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