#Nubian
“This is your last day. Be strong. Don’t hesitate. Cut and run. An exit with no return.” This is how Nubian writer Idris Ali opens his novel Poor (2005). Read without any context, one may assume that the sentences describe a hopeful situation: a coming of age, a leap of faith, or the culmination of years of effort to reach an ultimate goal. Yet, what Ali was truly describing was a situation of helplessness and pure vulnerability. At that moment,…
