Poetry, literature, film and the arts across the Somali world.
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Said, widely known by his childhood nickname Hadraawi, was one of the greatest Somali poets of all time. He was certainly the most famed Somali poet since the mid 1900s. He will remain the…
The collapse of the Somali Republic in 1991 presented an incalculable tremendous loss, including the loss of cultural heritage. Pre-1991, Somalia was famous for a nation with sophisticated art. Unfortunately, this…
Saynab Haji Ali Baxsan, a well known, respected and beloved Somali singer, passed away in 19th October, 2020 in Mogadishu, Somalia. She was 85 years old. She was born in 1935 in Baabuli, Somali Region in Ethiopia. It…
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British writer and poet laureate born in Nairobi but raised in London. She wrote two chapbooks namely Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body.