zamzam abdi gelle found herself living in kenya in dadaab. for a long time, it became known as the world s largest refugee camp, and it s currently home to more than 200,000 people. there are now commercial hubs in the camp, but many residents have known no other home. you don t know what life holds for you. we have been in mogadishu, in a big city, with a good life. and then we end up in a refugee camp in mogadishu, the war had started, there was militia groups everywhere. we were scared. dead bodies were scattered everywhere. just, like, things that you cannot imagine. we were attacked by the militia groups. i think there were about ten. they killed one of my uncles and then they shot my father that night. he was shot in his left leg, and then from the back, going out from this side. alhamdulillah, that night, my father survived. we fled from mogadishu in the beginning of 1992. we travelled to the border of kenya. we are very young at that time and my father could not walk, so we had
i feel like a kenyan because we just stayed four years in somalia, and 24 years in kenya. but kenya was telling us the other day what they want is just to close the camps and chuck away somali people living in the camps back to somalia. reporter: dadaab is the world s . largest refugee camp and now kenya wants to close it down. will they be forced to leave? many of them have never been anywhere else. where will i go back to? we neither kenyans, cos they are telling us we are refugees, we are neither the somalis, because we have been brought up in kenya. so, we are caught in between. that was zamzam abdi gelle. and finally, 40 years ago here in kenya, tourism was booming, with visitors coming for the wildlife as well as its beautiful beaches. our next witnesses were earning a living playing music at hotels when they were inspired to write a song which went on to become a global hit. this is the story of jambo bwana.
largest refugee camp and now. kenya wants to close it down. will they be forced to leave? many of them have never been anywhere else. where will i go back to? we neither kenyans, cos they are telling us we are refugees, we are neither the somalis, because we have been brought up in kenya. so, we are caught in between. that was zamzam abdi gelle. and finally, a0 years ago here in kenya, tourism was booming, with visitors coming for the wildlife as well as its beautiful beaches. our next witnesses were earning a living playing music at hotels when they were inspired to write a song which went on to become a global hit. this is the story ofjambo bwana. #jambo, jambo bwana. # habari gani. # mzuri sana. # wageni, wakaribishwa. .. # kenya yetu hakuna matata.
enduring power of history. and this seems like a good time to remind you that you can watch witness history every wednesday on bbc world news, or you can catch up on all our films, along with thousands of radio programmes in our online archive. just search for bbc witness history. after the break, we hear from zamzam abdi gelle, who describes the early days of living in what was for a long time the world s largest refugee camp. welcome back to witness history with me, ciru muriuki. now a story about home and nationality. our next witness began life in somalia, but what came in 1991, and the following year, zamzam abdi gelle found herself living in kenya in dadaab. for a long time, it became known as the world s largest refugee camp, and it s currently home to more than 200,000 people. there are now commercial hubs in the camp, but many residents have known no other home. you don t know what life holds for you. we have been in mogadishu, in a big city, with a good life. and then we end
because now they were looking to lock me up. i think my life explains why history is very exciting, because look at the problems i ve gone through because of my writing of history. dr ken mufuka there, on the enduring power of history. and this seems like a good time to remind you that you can watch witness history every wednesday on bbc world news, or you can catch up on all ourfilms, along with thousands of radio programmes in our online archive. just search for bbc witness history. after the break, we hear from zamzam abdi gelle, who describes the early days of living in what was for a long time the world s largest refugee camp. now a story about home and nationality. our next witness began life in somalia, but what came in 1991, and the following year,