LONDON (Reuters) - She heard them when she spoke to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, and when she met Syrians at a camp in Jordan: the same cries of the dispossessed that rang during her own childhood, when she escaped from Darfur.
Now, Sudanese-American poet Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud - crowned world champion at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam in Washington DC - is carrying the message of those voices to world leaders at the climate summit in Scotland.
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