In April, a strange Somali man wrote to me in my inbox and said that I smiled too much. He said that Somali men didnt like Somali women who smiled alot and who showed their teeth. Well I was flabbergasted by this and wrote about it on my Facebook wall and it ignited the needed heated discussion…
Somali mother sitting by the fire. Tell me how you race the morning. Chase the day and host the evening. Somali mother tell me how to live hard. And yet smile easy just like you. Explain to me why the world is less giving. Less kinder and less compassionate then in your time? Somali mother, mother of…
Let me stand strong, tall and wise. Let me not be a broken arrow. Let me not wallow in despair. Let me not be harmed in any way. Let me not lose my innocence. Let me be a child, I beg. Let me gain significance. Let me not lose it. This strong part of my…
I heard the screams. A little girl yelling in a house. She was hysterical. I stopped to inquire. A woman, who seemed to be smiling, laughingly assured me “ooh its just a little coward girl who will be made halaal today. We have to do it before the suns gets hot”. My heart sunk. Why was…
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 http://www.nairobiunderground.com and a bunch of other stuff. Robert Frost’s idea that “Poetry is when an emotion has found…
Amazing, empowering story of forgiveness and of moving on by Mariam Yassin Jirde. About life after Westgate. I have learned so much from this young woman and from her life story. May God bless you Mariam.
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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