Sulaiman Addonia in conversation with Gary Younge

Join writers Sulaiman Addonia and Gary Younge in a discussion inspired by Addonia's acclaimed novel The Seers, as they share their perspectives on London, Sudan, writing, the experiences of refugees, and much more. 

Published last year, The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.

Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between…