It all started in June of 2015 when I was nominated by Radio Bar-Kulana as Person of the Month. I\’d not previously worked with this radio station not did I know about their Person of the Month nominations. Apparently, they conducted their own research on me and others and contacted me about this. The new initiative aimed […]
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Somali mother sitting by the fire. Tell me how you race the morning. Chase the day and host the evening. Somali mother tell me how to live hard. And yet smile easy just like you. Explain to me why the world is less giving. Less kinder and less compassionate then in your time? Somali mother, mother of
Tell me Somali Mother, why the world has become so heartless? Read More »
Book Review By Carrey Francis Ronjey. Carrey Francis Ronjey is a constant wanderer and a chaser of multiple dreams. When he is not busy being unsettled in Nairobi, he\’s locked up in Solitude dreaming. He runs his blog www.nairobiunderground.com and a bunch of other stuff. Robert Frost’s idea that “Poetry is when an emotion has found
Reviews and commentaries of \’Sounds of Laughter: An Anthology of Poems from the Soul\’ Read More »
Yesterday, Saturday the 16th of May 2015, I was invited to read some of my poems at FatumasVoice, a monthly event at PAWA254, one of Africa’s most vibrant cultural centers in I had been following the work of various artists in Kenya for a long time from a distance. I live and work in Somalia and so
I\’ve just completed a 4-year research project collecting and documenting information for a book i am writing about my late father\’s biography in book and audio. The journey, which is captured on video was both an emotional and educational one. As I traveled to my father\’s birth place in Somalia and to the place where
The biography of my father – the late Ahmed Hirsi Koshin – AUN Read More »
I will make no excuses for being a woman A woman, the woman, I am. I will make no excuses for being an opinionated female A female, the female, I am. I will make no excuses for being an emancipated lady A lady, the lady, I am. I will make no excuses for my curved
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We have dreamed many dreams that never came true. We watched them painfully vanish at every dawn. But we have realized enough dreams for Somalia. To make us want to keep dreaming on. We have prayed many prayers for Somalia even when no answers came. Though we waited long and patient. But answers have come
Silent Voices: The Role of Somali Women’s Poetry in Social and Political Life Zainab Mohamed Jama Source: journal.oraltradition.org/articles/download/9i?article=jama Oral literature plays a very important role in Somali culture and has done so for thousands of years. The Somali language is spoken in Somalia, Djibouti, the Somali regions of Ethiopia, and the northeastern region of Kenya. Before
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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,100 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. The WordPress.com Team prepared a 2014 annual report for the impressive blog http://sahrakoshin.wordpress.com which was created in August 2014
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