“I wanted to write a song that feels like a home for those of us who are homeless because of the conflict,” Mr. Warsame wrote on social media when the single was launched, now on YouTube. The lyrics reflect his childhood experience escaping the war in Somalia and others whose “every suitcase holds their house”.
More than 110 million people are currently forcibly displaced around the world, including more than 670,000 Somalis, according to the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR.
Made in almost 100 countries, made Rolling Stone magazine’s 200 Greatest Hip Hop Albums of All Time, and recently completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Mr. Warsame is currently developing a musical at the Public Theater in New York.
Find out more from UNHCR here.