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His academic pursuits were complemented by a deep engagement with the works of postcolonial thinkers and writers from Africa and the Caribbean, including Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, and Nuruddin Farah.
A formative experience was her discovery of authors like Aminata Sow Fall from Senegal and Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, who showed her the power of using fiction to explore social and political realities.
She is frequently cited alongside other seminal Somali diaspora writers like Nuruddin Farah, representing a crucial poetic counterpart to his prose.