29 June 2020 A father figure in London’s Somali community

Annisa Omar’s obituary of her grandfather Omar Musa in The Guardian, “. . . At the age of six he got his first job, fanning a bank manager in an office with an oversized palm leaf. In 1941, at the age of 16, he left his homeland to seek better opportunities . . .   In 1954 he returned to Hargeisa to marry a local woman, Zahra Jama, . . They boarded the SS Orsova in Aden, arriving in England in 1959 and settling East London . . . ” click here