This blog post is a part of a series of posts the author occasionally writes about the humanitarian situation in Somalia focusing on Somali #diaspora #humanitarianism, #complexcrises, #gender issues in Somalia. The author is a PhD candidate studying Somali Diaspora Humanitarianism at the University of Copenhagen/University of Nairobi, @Diaspora_Hum. Introduction and background One would expect …
* This blogpost is part of ongoing research work on COVID-19 in Somalia. It is Part 1 of a series of blogposts the blogger intends to post here, and elsewhere, on a regular basis with the hashtags #COVID19Somalia #DHUM @Diaspora_Hum. ——————- PART 1: APRIL 20th On March 16th 2020, Federal Government authorities announced the first …
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Dear Somali youth. For many years. You sat all day by the bomb-shelled walls. Your future was massacred. Stolen from you. Your innocence too. You sat amongst people who lost their souls, and all hope. For 20 years, you watched the daily bombings, the killings. You lost your self worth and confidence. Your dignity had …
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Garowe, 6:50pm Long before TEDxMogadishu begun, we sat close together and even more closer to the wide screen projection infront of us. We were anxiously waiting for the speakers to start telling their stories. We were also hoping that the internet would not give us a problem and that the power would not cut. A group of …
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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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I am the sister of the martyr. I am the aunt of the potato seller at the local market. I am the daughter of the local sheikh. I am the injured of the revolution. The protester. The jailed. The detained. I am the tortured. The exiled. The kidnapped. The raped. I am the veiled. The …
I am honored and humbled to have been invited to one of Africa\’s biggest Book Festivals- The StoryMoja Book Festival by its founder Muthoni Garland. I met Muthoni in Hergeysa during the Hergeysa Book Fair. I was invited there together with other women from the Puntland Women Writers Association (PWWA). At the Storymoja i will …
It is doing and giving for somebody else on which all of life’s splendor depends. As you will see in Sahro Ahmed Koshin’s latest poetry book ‘The Sounds of Laughter: An Anthology of Poems from the Soul’, her poems and writing\’s, for a great part deal with this phenomenal. Sahro’s poems very often have the …
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On a fine golden morning. I found a singing dove. On the of floor of my verandah. It sang with such beauty and grace. It whistled pure harmonies. It played me a special tune. One of a deeper meaning. One with a deeper understanding. Of this chaotic weeping nation of mine The singing dove sung …
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