Nadifa Mohamed FRSL (Somali: Nadiifa Maxamed, Arabic: نظيفة محمد) (born 1981) is a Somali-British novelist.

[3] She has also written short stories, essays, memoirs and articles in outlets including The Guardian, and contributed poetry to the anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019).

[8] Mohamed's first novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), described in The Guardian as "a significant, affecting book of the dispossessed",[11] is a semi-biographical account of her father's life in Yemen in the 1930s and '40s, during the colonial period.

[12] She has said that "the novel grew out of a desire to learn more about my roots, to elucidate Somali history for a wider audience and to tell a story that I found fascinating.

[24][25] Her writing has also been published in such outlets as The Guardian[26] and Literary Hub, as well as in the anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, 2019),[27] which includes poetry by Mohamed.

[32] In The Guardian, Ashish Ghadiali wrote of Mohamed that the novel "confirms her as a literary star of her generation",[33] while Michael Donkor described the book as a "determined, nuanced and compassionate exposure of injustice".

In The Guardian, Phil Harrison called it a "fascinating documentary about how the people of Britain reacted when US troops arrived during the second world war, bringing promises of freedom and, paradoxically, codified racism within their segregated army.