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Abdourahman A. Waberi

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Abdourahman A. Waberi

Abdourahman Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. He was born in Djibouti in 1965. Waberi’s works include The Land without Shadows, Transit, and In the United States of Africa. His first volume of stories, The Land without Shadows, won Belgium’s Royal Academy of French Language and Black Africa’s Grand Literary Prize for French speakers. His articles and reviews have appeared in many international publications. He is currently a Visiting Professor in Africana Studies and the Humanities at the Claremont Colleges in California.

Articles by Abdourahman A. Waberi

from “Passage of Tears”
By Abdourahman A. Waberi
My mission consists in feeling out the temperature on the ground, making sure the country is secure, the situation is stable, and the terrorists are under control.
Translated from French by David Ball & Nicole Ball
from “In Ben’s Footsteps”
By Abdourahman A. Waberi
For Tim Peltason, Debra Carbares, Anjali Prabhu, and the Newhouse Humanities Center, Wellesley CollegeBen, do you know why the dreams of children are always corrupted in the mouths of adults? Why must…
Translated from French by Nicole Ball & David Ball