Newcastle’s Somali Community: Tyneside’s Longest-Standing African Presence
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Newcastle’s Somali Community: Tyneside’s Longest-Standing African Presence
Somali seafarers were in South Shields before the First World War. Newcastle's Somali community today is one of the north's largest - and one of the least-written-about.
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