She is the daughter of a refugee who has seen not a single inch of his land his whole life, and of a mother who lives with her heart split between her homeland and a foreign country, between her family and her marriage, between her mother and her home, between her siblings and her children. 
Yeye ni binti wa mkimbizi ambaye hajawahi kutia machoni mwake hata kipande kidogo cha ardhi yake maisha yake yote, na wa mama ambaye huishi huku moyo wake ukiwa umegawanyika kati ya nchi ya asili yake na nchi ya kigeni, kati ya familia yake na ndoa yake, kati ya mama yake na nchi yake ya asili, kati ya ndugu aliozaliwa nao na watoto wake wa kuzaa mwenyewe.