Qisashome gathers stories about home, their meaning and memories severed by political violence. It is a bilingual digital space where individuals from the SWANA region and its diaspora narrate their understanding of home in their own words, with their own hands and imagination.

Qisashome recognises that in times of political violence, the rupture of home and belonging, although profoundly present in our deepest places, is overshadowed, neglected, simplified, absorbed into broader narratives, or forgotten. Those who grieve their home, its meaning, its memory, remain unheard.

Qisashome centres itself at moments of personal rupture and transformation where violence enters everyday life and alters one’s sense of self and place. We gather all forms of creative expression born from that transformation. When home still exists but no longer holds its meaning. When home disappears and hands cannot reach it. This grief is what Qisashome invites its people to narrate in their own ways.

By bringing these stories together, we create a shared memory that resists erasure. We insist that lived experience is knowledge. We place voices from those living through conflict and those in diaspora in conversation, creating space where experiences meet without being reduced to a single narrative.

Here you share your story and hold space as a witness to the stories of others. This home endures so we can remember what history leaves unsaid.

Even if you arrive with your story but don’t know how to write it, Qisashome’s story facilitators will meet with you and ask you gentle questions to help you shape your narrative and add it to the stories of others.