By Ali Sheikh A. Dhagaweyne Abdullahi Maalim Ahmed alias DHODAAN was born and brought up in Sirrow——a small village in Daratole district of Doollo Zone or Wardheer zone in the year 1941. Before death hounds him in the year 2013 at the aged of 72, Abdullahi Maalim Dhodaan was unbeatable star in the Somalis artistic...
February 5, 2025
Category: Camels and Poets
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O’JERUSALEM
A poem by Abdi Ismail In every transitory phase of human history, the pungent stink of malfeasance arises. In the extreme fringe of human existence. In the infinite reaches of the human mind. In the entire range of the human endeavour. There’s an infinite void, that casts a deep shadow. A shadow that obfuscate the...
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THE GARISSA GENOCIDE AND THE PLIGHT OF KENYAN SOMALIS SINCE “INDEPENDENCE”.
By Abdi Ismail Dalal Feeling has no power against reason but feeling older than history is no light matter so they say. I can justifiably vouch for the above statement after witnessing and experiencing one of the most harrowing and cruel atrocity visited upon the innocent and defenceless Somalis of Garissa township by the Kenyan...
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Transgression (Tacaddi): A Poem by Hussein Halane
By Hussein Halene Translated by Adam OHirsi While I am apprehensive about the current affairs of Somalia, and fearful that the never ending chaos of the homeland will render my brain waste, I met with Aw Hirsi, a good friend who is dear to me. My encounter with Aw Hirsi led me to recite this Poem, which...
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An interview with Ali M. Ahad
Editor’s note: Ali Mumin Ahad is a Somali scholar with multifaceted interests and a personal life story that brought him from Somalia to Italy, and now to Australia. Ali obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics at the Somali National University, and then moved to Italy where he earned his master’s degree in agribusiness at Università...
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Gabay versus Guurow
By Mohamed Abdikadir (Stanza) Gabay The gabay which is the most significant kind of Somali classical literature consists of two parts separated by coma, when written, and they are known as: hoojis (rising) and hooris (falling). If there are 20 syllabic vowels in the line, the coma occurs in each line of the gabay after 12 syllabic vowels. If there are 21 syllabic vowels...
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The Somali Language
By Mohamed Abdikadir (Stanza) The official language of Somalia and Somali people is the Somali language and it belongs to the Cushitic Afro-Asiatic languages. It is written from left to right in Latin characters. It is a language that is rich in literature, as national and international linguists discovered through multiple linguistic and literary studies....
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A “domestic” history about the Danish-Somalis at a museum in Århus
By Marco Zoppi Societies ineluctably transform themselves through the natural course of time, and during this development some of their elements of heritage, whether vested in culture or articulated in other facies of human experience, are modified to meet the requirements of practice and of lived empirical contexts. And precisely there, where the most sophisticated...
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The case of Somali language
By Professor Abdalla Omar Mansur When the Somali language was transcribed and became the national language in 1972, it was used extensively as the medium of instruction and administration. The way in which all this was realized became a model for imitation and emulation by other countries of the African continent. But after the collapse...
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Wareysi: Dr. Georgi Kapchits
Odhaahda Tifaftirka: Waxaanu akhristayaasha WardheerNews la wadaagaynaa waraysi xiise badan oo aanu la yeelanay Dr. Georgi Kapchits oo ah khabiir aad isugu taxalujiya ururinta iyo baadhista afka, dhaqanka iyo suugaanta Soomaaliyeed. Dr. Kapchits waxa uu ka waramayaa suugaanta iyo maahamaahyada Soomaalida iyo barashadiisii Afka Soomaaliga. Waraysigani waxa uu horey ugu soo baxay WardheerNews bishii Janaayo...