As Sharmaarke tells me, it was searching for like-minded Somali creatives that kickstarted the project in the first place. "Identity is a regular part of my work, so it was great to be able to have a dialogue with someone doing that through music," he says, explaining he got involved in See My Dunya after meeting musician and project creator Hamdi Hassan [HMD] through social media. "We connected on the exploration of what our shared heritage means in the diaspora, and helped each other fill in the gaps of our history, which isn’t accessible through other means."