With her musical Dixon Road, Fatuma Adar is rewriting what it means to be from Toronto

[Deeq A.]

When Fatuma Adar first began to conceive of the musical that would come to be known as Dixon Road, she dreamed big: this would be her very own version of Les Miserables. Trading Jean Valjean's 19th century prison for a 21st century immigration detention centre, Adar imagined an epic tale of injustice, weaving together the stories of immigration, police raids and civil war that defined the Somali community in mainstream Canadian news outlets.

Source: Hiiraan Online