Black Mamba Boy
Nadifa Mohamed

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synopsis

1935, Aden. Jama is ten years old and has grown up in the slums of this ancient city, learning to survive amongst the cosmopolitan ragamuffins and vagabonds of the port. When he loses everything in Aden, his only chance of survival lies in finding his father, who disappeared years before.

But between him and his father lies a dangerous, lonely expanse and just ahead is the war that will test the world to its limits.

So begins an epic journey by foot that will take Jama through war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt, Palestine and finally to the icy realms of Britain that he’d heard about in Aden.

Nadifa Mohamed

was born in Hargesia, Somalia in 1981 and was educated in the UK, studying History and Politics at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She lives in London and is working on her second novel.