http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_692.jsp Comments for "'Not housekeepers any more': Somali women of the diaspora, Harun Hassan " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_692.jsp <p> She dresses like Carol Vorderman, idolises Oprah Winfrey and, although she grew up in a male-dominated society where a man’s word is law, she likes to be seen as a feminist. </p> <p> Following the collapse of her four-year marriage, Amina Shakur lives in temporary accommodation in west London with her two young children, Maymuun, five, and Mustaf, three. After a nightmare year in Russia, Finland and Norway, the 29-year-old refugee from Somalia arrived in the United Kingdom, her preferred destination, on March 1996. The main reason for her coming to the UK was to marry her long-term sweetheart, Mohamed Ali, who had arrived five months earlier. </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_692.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_692.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/people-africa_democracy/article_692.jsp#comment africa 50.50 africa &amp; democracy Creative Commons normal Harun Hassan people Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 692 at http://www.opendemocracy.net