M.A.M.A. East African Women's Group talk about their lives in East Africa and as refugees in England through a blend of traditional stories and real life experiences.

Shells on a Woven Cord won the prestigious Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize and was dramatized by BBC Radio 4.

"These women are tough: they jeep talking while their men are out making war. What is distintive about this collection by Somali women writers in Sheffield is precisely that sense of diverse voices making a community out of the stories they tell, and offering us, no matter how different we are, a bridge into that world" Prof. Lynette Hunter Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College and of the History of Rhetoric at the University of Leeds