Layla Mahmood, East Africa Correspondent for The Observer, joins Mohammed Elnaiem from The Decolonial Centre for a conversation on climate, censorship and environmental change in East Africa.
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Taking Fozia Ismail’s A Song for the Xeedho as a starting point, the event considers what disappearing ecologies mean for nomadic life, oral tradition and ways of knowing rooted in land, movement and interdependence.
Layla will be joined by an additional speaker (to be announced) for a discussion on climate, power, colonial legacies and who gets to narrate environmental change.
A Song for the Xeedho – the Knot Makers is co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts and Whitechapel Gallery.
About Layla Mahmood
Layla Mahmood is a journalist, reporter and East Africa Correspondent for The Observer. Her work spans climate, politics, culture and social justice. She has worked with The Guardian and the BBC, with a focus on investigative and people-led reporting that traces how political decisions are felt in everyday life. Her journalism has explored social and political issues across East Africa and the wider diaspora, alongside cultural writing for publications including Glamour and Subbacultcha!. Layla has also worked as a producer and writer with Fully Focused Productions and Million Youth Media, supporting storytelling rooted in lived experience and youth perspectives.
About Mohammed Elnaiem
Mohammed Elnaiem is Director of The Decolonial Centre. He is an activist, and also working on a Ph.D. in Sociology at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he is writing a dissertation on the relationship between capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy.
