By PATRICIA GARCIA Before any of the multiple directors, producers, or collaborators were credited at the end of Lemonade, Beyoncé paid tribute to Warsan Shire, the Kenya-born, Somali-British poet whose prose is read throughout the film. By now we know what this means: Queen Bey would like you to take note of this name. Beyoncé...
October 20, 2026
Category: Youth – Generation Next
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Diploma Mills Mislead and Defraud Vulnerable Somali Students
By Abdillahi Hussein It all started with Facebook erroneous comment on a basic fundamental economics concept by someone claiming to hold “doctoral” degree in the Economics. Oddly, that person was using a copy of his “Ph.D. degree in Economics” as banner in his Facebook page. Because I have an undergraduate degree in Economics, the two—basic...
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Help Guled! #GacanQaboGuled
Hello! We are a team of Somalis, from Somalia and the Somali diaspora who are conducting a fundraiser for Guled , a 13-year old boy genius. Guled is a self-taught inventor, who began creating cars and planes from an early age. Without any formal education, Guled taught himself how to create vehicles and motorise them,...
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Reflections from a Somali-American teacher
By Qorsho Hassan I was raised by a single mother who valued education and the deen (Islam), and so my childhood revolved around books, the arts and constant exposure to the vibrancy of the Somali Dhaqan (culture). In the beginning of 2004, my mother sat me down to discuss how I’d be sharing my room...
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Effective Philosophy: The Missing Concept of Somalia’s Ailing Education Sector
By Abdirasaq H. Nuurre (Xuubay) In Somalia, where more than two decades of civil and proxy wars devastated the lives of millions of people, different education philosophies quietly emerged from the ruins of the country’s learning structures. One is dominant and active at the moment while the other is on the horizon awaiting an opening...
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Somali American teen’s unexplained death rattles Muslims and blacks in Seattle
By Matt Pearce, LA Times He had almost memorized the entire Koran. That’s what Hamza Warsame’s friends and family in Seattle’s Somali American community come back to again and again: Hamza, just 16, was only one sura, or chapter, away from finishing Islam’s central text. He was a great studier. The American-born son of two...
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What Does It Mean To Be A Somali?
By Yasmine J. Farah I left Somalia when I was around the age of 6. Since that time, we have lived primarily in the United States. My knowledge of Somalia is on the borderline bipolar with a hint of schizophrenia. Anarchy made Somalia lose its narrative long before the people took up guns and madness...
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Never a Muslim president? Minnesota boy, 12, tells Ben Carson he’s wrong
Mukhtar Ibrahim, MPR When GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said a Muslim shouldn’t become a president of the United States, Yusuf Dayur couldn’t remain silent. Listening to Carson’s comments on YouTube troubled Yusuf enough that he asked his mother to grab her smartphone and record him. “This is my response to presidential candidate Ben Carson,”...
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On foot from Rwanda via DRC to the cricket pitches in Cape Town – Emmanuel Sebareme’s journey has been quite something
By Antoinette Muller Remember the name Emmanuel Sebareme because you’ll hear it often in the future. The 19-year old cricketer is a refugee from Rwanda, who arrived in South Africa when he was five years old. His parents had fled the war-torn country five years earlier, making most of of their journey on foot. Sebareme was...
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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF MOGADISHU
By Abdiwahab M. Ali My visit to Mogadishu was initially conceived out of curiosity: What did the future hold for the capital, once a paradise in the Horn of Africa, as it is re-emerging from years of fratricidal civil war? It all started with an invitation from Abdi, a close friend. “How come you do...