I was born in Potsdam to German and Sudanese parents. At three months old, my family and I fled from East Germany to Sudan. After almost two years of peace in Sudan, where I learned to walk during a desert storm in the Sahara, unrest began and we had to flee again, this time to West Berlin, where we stayed in a political refugee camp in Marienfelde. After several months, we were offered an apartment opposite the KaDeWe, where I spent my childhood.