The author of an award-winning memoir about his life as a refugee has been refused a UK visa to attend the premiere of its adaptation for the London stage by a celebrated British playwright.
Ibrahima Balde, a Guinean who lives in Spain, has been told that the government is not satisfied he would return after the first night of Little Brother, which begins a run at Jermyn Street Theatre in central London next week.
Balde’s memoir, Little Brother: An Odyssey to Europe, tells the story of his search along migrant routes of the Sahara for his sibling Alhassane, who ran away from school in Guinea, west Africa, to earn money to support their family.
Jermyn Street Theatre called for the Home Office to reconsider the decision
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The memoir has been adapted for the stage by
