The Mourning Tree: an autobiography and a prison memoir, Mohamed Barud Ali
Ponte Invisibile Ed (redsea-online), February 2010, 256 pp - 13x20cm (soft cover)

Kayd Somali Arts and Culture in collaboration with redsea-online.com is proudly inviting you to the presentation of new book: 'Weerane' (The Mourning Tree), autobiography by Mohamed Barud Ali. Join us to discuss this new autobiography with the author and also mark and commemorate with us, the students protest, 20 Feb 1982, erupted 28 years ago in Hargeysa demanding justice and the release of UFFO members. We expect you on Saturday, 20 Feb. 2010 at 4pm at Oxford House, Derby Shire Street, E2 6GH .

This prison memoir will not only give first-hand information of the experience of the brutalities of Siyad Barre’s Somalia but also of the life of a nomad child who is brought to the city to live with his aunt because there was no work for him due to the fact that his father did not own any camels to be looked after. In the city while growing up, hunger was never far away. That motivated Mahamed to perform well at school which gave him the opportunity to go to the United Kingdom. After he earned his university degree, he went back to his home town Hargeysa where he met young professionals’ like him. They decided to volunteer for their community, what became to be known by the international community as Hargeysa Self-help group and locally as UFFO. For their noble acts, Mahamed and his colleagues were imprisoned and what followed were eight long lonely years, where the studying of insects was the main entertainment of the day. The reasons why they were freed, while at the same time the rest of their community had been destroyed, were as strange and surprising as the reasons why they were jailed in the first place were bizarre. There was no time in Mohamed’s life to get depressed or discouraged when he and his group were freed as the reconstruction of the country had to start immediately.

Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition,
by Iqbal D Jhazbhay, Institute for Global Dialogue & South African Institute of International Affairs, Johannesburg, 2009, 243 pp., $25.00 ISBN 978-1-920216-20-7

Success rooted in its bottom-up approach that embraces local norms, structures.

Any reader may wonder if anything other than piracy, warlords tussle and the sound of bombs can ever come from Somalia. Such negative perception of Somalia is understandable if one is to refuse the de facto break-up of Somalia into two disparate parts that have had paradoxically different trajectories since 1990.

Prof Iqbal Jhazbay’s recent book, Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition, deals with that part that has attracted huge academic interest but little media attention.

Waxa tiriyey Yuusuf Cismaan Cabdille "Shaacir"

Maasandi Badhax-tira waxay soo baxday 18/01/2010

Qarnigan dhamaaday bilawgiisii ilaa badhtamihiisii waxa isa soo tarayay aqoonta maadiga ah ee debedaha inagaga imanaysay, taasoo aad mooddo inay maanta marayso meelihii ugu sarreysay. Haddaba waxa muuqata in aanay wali la fal gelin waxyaabihii sooyaalka ahaa ee ay bulshadu aaminsanayd sida diinta iyo dhaqanka. Maansadan koobani waxay igaga dhalatay dood-cilmiyeed loo qabtay aqoonyahannada dalka, anigase waxa shirkaa iiga bidhaamay in aanay aqoonyahannadu wali fahmin waddooyinkii loo mari lahaa bulsha weynta.

Farriintaydani waa talo ku waajahan aqoonta maadiga ah in lagu saleeyo diinta iyo hab dhaqanka bulshada si ay isula jaan qaadaan.

Naadiga Akhristayaasha Hargeysa waxa uu kugu martiqaadayaa inaad kala soo qayb gasho munaasibad loogu magac daray “U HIILINTA AF-SOOMAALIGA” oo lagu falanqayn doono qodobada: Afka Soomaaliga, Taariikhdiisa, Dhismihiisa, Qabyo Tirkiisa, Xasillooni Darrada Afka Soomaaliga Haysta, Weeraka Luqadaha Ajnabiga Ah Ay Ku Hayaan Afka Soomaaliga, Erey Bixinta Kelmadaha Cusub Ee Afka Ku Soo Biira & Kaalinta Aqoonyahanka.

Waxa qortey Sahra-Kiin Cabdiraxmaan Axmed

Waxay ahayd markii labaad ee muddo bil u dhaxayso ay marlabaad ay madal noocaan oo kale ah ay ku kulmaan abwaanno waaweyn oo sumcad, maamuus iyo karaamo ku dhex leh ummadda Soomaaliyeed gaar ahaana ummadda Somaliland. Madashu waa faraxal iyo foolaadka murtida, goobtu waa hotel imperial oo ku yaalla jidka wadnaha Hargeysa. Madal si weyn oo gobannimo iyo qiiro iyo qiimayn shakhsiyaadka martida loo yahay loo cammiray bay ahayd oo marka aad irridda ka soo gasho aanad helaynba meel aad aad fadhiisato oo dadka qaar markii xataa madashu buuxsantay ay ka soo qaybgalayaasha qaar ku qancsanaayeen in ay codka iyo sanqadha madasha ka socota dhagaha ay la raacaan haddii ay nasiib u yeelan waayeen in ay indhaha ka dhawraan. Akhriste madasha intaas oo dhan laga helay waxa marti loo yahay oo caawa barnaamijka hoggaaminaya oo talantaalli isku waydaarsnayey abwaannada kala ah Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame “Hadraawi”, Xasan X. Cabdillaahi “Geney” iyo Axmed aw Geeddi “Dheeraad”.

Kayd Somali Arts and Culture is pleased to invite you to the presentation of new book: 'Black Mamba Boy' by Nadifa Mohamed. Join us to discuss this new novel with the author on Friday, 12 Feb. 2010 at 6:30pm -9:00pm, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG.

The story begins in Aden,1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old street boy. When his mother dies unexpectedly, and he finds himself alone in the world, Jama is forced home to his native Somalia, the land of his nomadic ancestors. War is on the horizon and the fascist Italian forces who control parts of east Africa are preparing for battle.

Yet Jama cannot rest until he discovers whether his father, who has been absent from his life since he was a baby, is alive somewhere. And so begins an epic journey which will take Jama north through Djibouti, war-torn Eritrea and Sudan, to Egypt. And from there, aboard a ship transporting Jewish refugees just released from German concentration camp, across the seas to Britain and freedom. It is a unique tale, based on the experiences and life of the author’s father, which also tells us the story of the many people of his generation who did not survive.

Waxa diyaariyey Naadiga Akhristeyaasha Hargeysa

Waa wax mar walba dhaca in naadiga akhristayaasha Hargeysi uu ka faa’iideysto aqoonyahannada dalka jooga iyo kuwa yimaaddaba. Kuwa waddanka jooga waabay wada joogaane, kuwa qurbajoogta ah, ka sokow xidhiidhka joogtada ah ee uu naadigu la leeyaahay, waxa uu kulamo aqoon korodhsi ah la yeeshaa marka ay dhacdo inay booqasho ku yimaadan waddanka. Aqoon isweydaarsigaa ujeeddada ugu weyn ee laga leeyahay waa, sidii talo iyo tusaaleba ay uga heli lahaayeen waaya-aragnimada uu wato aqoonyahanku.

Haddaba habeenkii Jimchuhu soo galayay ee January 21, 2010 waxa naadigu uu kulan casho ah oo iskugu jirtey baroordiiq iyo xog is waydaarsi la yeeshay aqoonyahanka wayn ee Cabdiraxmaan Cabdillaahi Faarax “Barwaaqo” oo hadda ku sugan Hargeysa. Waa qoraagii ama aqoonyahannkii lixaad ee qurbo joog ah ee naadigu la kulmo, marka la eego intii uu naadigu jirey.

Waxa qorey Axmed Iid Aadan

Dhoofku beryahan dambe sida aynu ognahay wuu macna badan yahay, sida inta badan loo yaqaannana waa iyada oo dalka loo dhashay laga tago lana tago dal kale oo laga shaqaysan karo, wax laga kororsan karo, lana degganaan karo intii la doono. Kaasi waa dhoofka weyn, waxse jira dhoof kale oo muddo go’an ku siman, kaas oo noqon kara in loo baxo waxbarasho ama caafimaad ama dalxiis ama arrimahaas qaar ka mid ah oo la isku darayba.

Sida aynu wada og nahay dhoofku waa qayb ka mid ah socdaalka, waxana lagu baxaa habab kala duwan oo uu ka “tahriibka” loo yaqaannaa ugu halis badan yahay mararka qaarkood. Meesha uu doono ha ku socdee, labo siyood uun buu qofku bixitaan ugu dhaqaaqi karaa: si sharci ah, iyo si aan sharci ahayn. Sida hore waa si’ toos ah, hase yeeshee sida dambe ayaa marka tahriibna lagu daro dhib badan lagala kulmi karaa, oo beryahan dambe dadka isku daya in ay sidaa dambe yeelaan waxa mararka qaarkood lagula kaftamaa in ay “naftood hurayaal” yihiin!

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Xasan Cabdi Madar waxa uu ku jiraa qoraayada fara ku tiriska ah ee hadda u xuubsiibtay inay daabacaan buugaag wacyi galin, aqoon, suugaan, fikrad, sheekooyin mala awaal ah iyo arrimaha bulshada, Xassan waxa la xiiseeyaa, oo ay dadku isha u taagaan marka aynu aragno sheeke yar oo gaaban oo haddana qiimo weyn ku fadhida, oo dadka uu u tusaaleeye si cad iyo si sarbeeb ah waxa uu ifafaaleeya wadciga jira, iyo waayaha nololeed ee dadku ku nool yihiin.

Sheekooyinkiisa aad looga helay ee caanbaxay waxa ka mid ah Kabahayga Xidho, Qolka hurdada, Intaanu dhiman wuu noolaa, Xusuus Mujaahid iyo kuwa kale oo aan soo koobi karin oo uu Xasan Cabdi Madar ugu tala galay bogga sheekooyinka ee Murtimaal oo si wayn u soo gaadhsiin jiray, waxana lagu xasuustaa buugaagtiisa caanka noqday ee bulshada ka dhex hiray, ee kala ah Sirta Guurka, Barbaarsame, Nabaadiino, iyo Riyaaq oo wada qoreen Abwaan Axmed Aw-Geedi oo aad ku xasuusataan heestiisa caanka ah, ee Sumalyahaw darbani, imikana aan u galo taariikhdiisa iyo waayihiisa guudo oo kooban,