It has set up operations in Zanzibar with $7m investment.

The novelist won the literature's top award for his unflinching portrayal of their effects on the refugee experience.

The Nobel Committee said the theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout the work of Gurnah, and he was awarded the prize ‘for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.’