A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Abdourahman Waberi was born in 1965 in Djibouti City. He is a poet, essayist, and short story writer. He went to France in 1985 to study English literature. He is most well known for his books The Land without Shadows, Transit, In the United States of Africa, and Passage des Larmes. He studied English literature in France and went on to obtain a doctoral degree on emigrant writers at the Paris-Sorbonne. He worked as a literary consultant for Editions Le Serpent à Plumes, Paris, and as a literary critic for Le Monde Diplomatique. He became a professor of French, francophone studies, and creative writing at George Washington University.