Warli painting with overlay of Ashwini Ramaswamy performing in Sacred Earth. Photograph by Ed Bock, 2011. Used with the permission of Ragamala Dance Company.
Poet, playwright, and teacher Said Salah Ahmed in a still from the documentary film Somalia: A Nation of Poets, which premiered on Twin Cities PBS in January 2017. Used courtesy of Ka Joog and Twin Cities PBS.
Cast members of Sally’s Rape onstage at Penumbra Theatre, ca. 1994. From Penumbra Theatre Company records (GV002), Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Saluma Omar in her jewelry shop inside Karmel Mall in Minneapolis. Photograph by Bill Jolitz, 2012. Printed in Somalis in Minnesota, by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2012), 55.