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Homely and spacious house for sale in Garowe, Puntland, Somalia.

Homely and spacious house for sale in Garowe sitting on land measuring 43m long and 28m wide. Conveniently located along Jidka 30ka, accessing 2 other side streets to the West and North. The house is designed, constructed and built by East Africa Construction Company located in Garowe. The house itself is 20m long  and 19m […]

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The benefits of coming home: My journey of fulfillment and growth in Puntland, Somalia.

Part A: letting the heart speak How it all started  In January of 2011, I  wanted so much to travel back to live and work in Garowe after giving having my daughter in the Netherlands. I traveled back to the the administrative capital. I had lived there from 2008 to 2010, as an EU Consultant

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Reviews and commentaries of \’Sounds of Laughter: An Anthology of Poems from the Soul\’

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

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The Power of Art and of PAWA254 in Kenya: How Youth Are Inspiring and Educating Each Other

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

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The biography of my father – the late Ahmed Hirsi Koshin – AUN

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

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Silent Voices: The Role of Somali Women’s Poetry in Social and Political Life

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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My Blog Review in 2014: Check Out Who Visited/Commented/Shared!

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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My Interview With Abukar Awale On Somali Channel And The Poems I Read There.

On the 22nd of October 2014 i was interviewed by the famous khat campaigner Abukar Awale on Somali Channel about my book. Here is the interview and the poems I read. 1. The complete interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_PT4HWgy4 2. Me reading my poem \’I am a Somali woman\’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTFPKCXlACU 3. Me reading my poem \’Ask me not

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