Mahamud Togane

Mahamud Siad Togane is a Somali-Canadian writer and peace activist who has been living in Canada since 1973. In 1986, he published The Bottle and The Bushman: Poems of the Prodigal Son, which focuses on themes of racism, alcoholism and Christianity. His work has also appeared in Bridges: Literature across Cultures (1994), Quebec Suite: Poems for and about Quebec (1995), Eternal Conversations (2003), and Fifty years, Fifty stories (2003). He received an M.A. in creative writing from Concordia University in 1982.