Shukri, Mogadishu’s first female equestrian, gets ready to ride her horse in the city. — Photos: HASSAN ALI ELMI/AFP
A STRANGE sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the beeping traffic of tuk-tuks and motorbikes.
Stranger still in conservative Somalia, the rider is a woman.
