Black history: Britain and race
The History Hour
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Ibrahim's Life Story Is an Early Simali Autobiography
Ibrahim's father was killed in a tribal war when he was three years old. His mother married again, and his half brother took charge of him. When ibrahim was ten, he was left in the care of another brother who was cruel. So he ran away, jumping on board a ship bound for aden,. He had heard there were many somali children and where life was meant to be easy. The only way he could get passage was as a stowaway. Ibrahim would then go home for months at a time, but always came back until one day he never returned. No one knows what became of All gassy with a lock of his hair which he kept in
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