The slam poet who discovered her voice in the Christmas Island Detention Centre

[Deeq A.]

Hani Abdile has a poetic explanation for why she fled war-torn Somalia alone at the age of 17. "There's a Somalian poet who says 'I wouldn't leave home unless home was the mouth of a shark'," she said. "No-one ever leaves the garden of their birth unless they have to."

Source: Hiiraan Online