Sulaiman Addonia (Author of Silence Is My Mother Tongue)

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Sulaiman Addonia

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Omhajer, Eritrea

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Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia is an author residing in London. He was born as the son of an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father in Eritrea. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976. In his early teens, he lived and studied in Saudi Arabia. He sought the asylum with his brother in London in 1990, and studied at the University College London.

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	Silence Is My Mother Tongue 3.81 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 2018 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Consequences of Love 3.62 avg rating — 1,096 ratings — published 2008 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seers 4.03 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2024 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste (Editor)(Introduction), Sulaiman Addonia (Contributor), Mikael Awake (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 3.54 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Africana: Raccontare il Continente al di l脿 degli stereotipi by Igiaba Scego (Editor), Chiara Piaggio (Editor), Agazit Abate 4.02 avg rating — 51 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racconti di due pianeti: Storie di cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianza in un mondo diviso by Andri Sn忙r Magnason (欧宝娱乐 Author), Anuradha Roy, Margaret Atwood (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Down the Angel and Up Holloway by Peggy Adams, Sulaiman Addonia, Joe Ambrose liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	De zieners by Sulaiman Addonia, Lucie van Rooijen (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was like taking a hammer to the home I had built in the Arabic language word by word, over many years in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. My increasing strength in English correlated negatively with my Arabic. The more I felt at home in English, the less Arabic felt like one. So much so that learning a new language was to acquire a new wound. Multilingualism meant multi-wounding.”
― Sulaiman Addonia

tags: homesickness, identity, linguistics, multilingualism, polyglot, saudade

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“I didn't choose for my job to be a secret, Nasnet said. It's ironic, though. Society makes it so and then they try to oust you and ostracize you for the secret they have demanded and imposed in the first place.”
― Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue

tags: judgement, secrets, truth

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“First we root our sensibility in the camp, and with each seed sown a bit of that fear is stripped off.”
― Sulaiman Addonia, Silence Is My Mother Tongue

tags: belonging

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