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Gender: Female
Heritage: Somali
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1 Home Suban Nur Cooley , 2019 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Growing Up African in Australia 2019; (p. 254-262)

'To be African in Australia is to be among the drifting diaspora. Nomadic beings who find themselves on an isolated continent through displacement or a disconnection from the umbilical thread of the motherland. Sometimes it's a curious heart or a quest to be closer to the ends of the earth that drives this seeking out of a new home. Other times, it's the fissures created by a civil war that cause a fleeing to somewhere safer, before it becomes a found home. Being African in Australia is, in its essence, a journey unusual.' (Introduction)
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