My parents tried to provide me and my siblings with a normal childhood, but we had to study in a school for orphans because other schools discriminat… - Sada Mire

It's hard being an only child when you need all the help you can get. I'm constantly aware that I need to be in many places at once. Of course, when I started studying archaeology, I had no idea that I would be like that.

Paintings in the Dhambalin cave . They are 5 thousand years old. It is a real mosaic of colours. They depict dancing people, a man hunting with a dog and a herd of domestic animals. This is the only site in Somalia with drawings of sheep. They are painted with decorations, which suggests ritual meaning.

We never planned to live like that, later, as it happened, we became refugees and ended up internally displaced in what would have otherwise seemed like barren landscapes.