2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah during the 40th International Book Fair at the Sharja, United Arab Emirates on November 4, 2021. [Caroline Chebet, Standard]
Jamaican poet Claude McKay in one of his famous poems, I Shall Return, once described the longing of going back to the village to loiter by the streams and bathe the brown blades of pending grasses.