Kayd presents a special book launch and in conversation with the sole British Booker Prize shortlisted author Nadifa Mohamed whose third novel , The Fortune Men, is based on the true story of Mahmood Mattan’s wrongful execution in Wales in the 1950’s. Set in 1952 among the “tumbledown” docks, milk bars and lodging houses of Cardiff’s multiracial Tiger Bay.

It novelises the real events surrounding the wrongful imprisonment and execution of Mahmood Mattan, a Somali seaman and father of three young boys, who was the last man to be hanged in Cardiff prison.

Join us for a discussion on the history of Somalis in the UK, especially in Wales and the larger implications of Mahmood’s story chaired by SOAS’ Professor Laura Hammond in conversation with Nadifa Mohamed.