Born in Djibouti in 1965, Abdourahman A. Waberi is an African writer writing in French. A great admirer of the Somali novelist, Nuruddin Farah, he is the author of seven works of fiction for which he has been awarded a number of literary awards. Africa lies at the heart of all his novels which examine themes such as exile, decolonisation, war and famine. Memory also has an important role to play in his work. He has dedicated a trilogy to Djibouti and a novel to the Rwandan genocide.