Diana Ferrus began writing poetry at fourteen, engaging deeply with personal, political, social, and historical themes. Her most famous poem, I’ve come to take you home, written in 1998 while she was studying at Utrecht University and feeling homesick, was inspired by Sarah Baartman’s exile and suffering in 19th-century Europe. The poem played a pivotal role in the campaign for Baartman’s repatriation: it was included in the French legislation that enabled the return of her remains — a first in