Musa and Esme take to the stage with Michael Palin at the Royal Geographic Society
Since he applied for sanctuary in the UK on his birthday in January 2003, Musa Ibrahim has become all too accustomed to being interviewed. From his asylum interview and subsequent appeal hearings to his volunteering interview at Refugee Action and appearances on local radio, Musa has spent the past six years fielding questions posed by a whole host of British people.
Indeed as a volunteer with our Refugee Awareness Project in Bristol, talking to community groups about his experiences of being a refugee, he got pretty used to being grilled about why he fled Somalia by school children, youth workers and firefighters alike.
So when Michael Palin asked to interview him as part of a new series of talks at the Royal Geographical Society, he was more laid back than I was. (more…)
