OK OYSU you got my attention. 

#SomaliMusic, #SomaliSongs, #Somalis,

Did you say that you were my girlfriend to my girlfriend? That hurts, she believes you over me!

What you are doing is wrong. Please stop. I have nothing against you or your life choices. Please stop sending me messages and STOP sending me facebook friendship requests. 

Nabadoon-

"Marka aad nin hoogiyo ka hor tago dagaalkoo dabka hura bakhtiiyoo garta hubin yaqaanoo xaqa hoos u eegoo halistiyo colaadaha ku hagoogta dhiigoo dadka kale hagaajoo kala haga dhashaa baa hooyo lagu xasuustaa"

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"dadka Soomaaliyeed cid ka digaal badan ma jirto"

Xaley Misaajid cusub oo Soomaali iyo Sawaaxil liigu sheegay baan aaday. Aad baa la ii soo dhaweeyay, habeen wanaagsan buuna ahaa. Gabar Soomaali ah oo aad ii soo dhaweysay oo dadka dhana isku xirtay meesha- shaax macaan badanna qof walboo rabey koob ka siisay baa markeey baxeysay kirligeedi weysay. Haween kale oo malaha eey dhib isku hayeen ayeey ku eedeysay ineey qaadatay. Sister R*** beey waxeey ku tiri: "Sister R* please talk to her before I get here tomorrow-" turning to an Eritrean sister who speaks Somali she says "Aniga Soomaaliyad baan ahay, bug iy bac baan ku bilaawi". Waxaan soo xasuustay macalimad tajweed na bareysay oo aad u jeclayd ineey dadka dacaayadeyso- maalinbaa waxeey tiri "Somalida waan ka baqaa sababtoo ah feerkaa ka sooo horeeya". Waxaan xasustaa hadalkaas inuu i dhibay- anigoo u arkaayo macalimad fekradaas xun ka qabta Soomaalida ineey caruur Soomaaliyeed wax barto ma aha. Soomaali digaalanta waan arki jiray, Hooyo Soomaali oo caruurteeda dartood deriska ula digaashayna waan maqlay balse maxaa keenay in Soomaaliyoo idil loo saariyo inuu digaalka ka so horeeyo? Waan digaalanaa balse xaq baan u digaalanaa qof gacanta ka soo horeyso wax lagu faano ma aha oo waaan isku caynaa. 

"Beertuu isticmaarka beerayBaqshiishkiyo baha-bahayskuQabiilkaan la buufinaayoAsaageen ku beegsan mayneeWaxbarta aan barwaaqo gaarnee."

So much beauty and hope that the heart aches for an embrace. No need to ask; its mutual. 

Happy independence Somalia! Soomaaliya hanoolaato (Long live Somalia). 

Happy 1da Luuliyo Compatriots

My translation of an awesome song from the Deegaan group from Djibouti dedicated to Buluugloow. May everyone of us stand be a soldier for it. 

Midabkaaga caanka ah Cirkoo caad lahayn baad Caynadiisa leedahoo Xiddigtii cadayd baa Shan gees kugu cabbiranoo Waa calaamadaadii (*2)      Your famed color      Similar to      A cloudless sky      That White Star      Measured in five sides      Is your mark

Sanadkii curtaba caawaad- Caawaad ku leedahay Calan quruxda kula mid ah Calan quruxda kula mid ah Caalamkoo dhan lama helo (*2)      In every year, tonight-      Tonight is yours      A flag to rival your beauty-      A flag to rival your beauty      Is not found in the whole world

Calooshoo fiyow iyo Casharkii Quraankaan Kugu caawineynaa Cimrigaa ha jiro Kugu caawineynaa Cimrigaa ha jiro! (*2)      We will support you-      With a clean Conscious [stomach]      And lessons from the Quraan      May you prosper!

Cirka sallim ayaa tahay Cadow jabiye baad tahay Dadka caawiyaa tahay Colaadii Sokeeyiyo Cudurkii ka guuroo Cudurkii ka guuroo! Caano iyo nabad (*2)      You are a peaceful sky      Breaker of the enemy you are      Helper of the people you are      Civil war and the disease      I have moved from      Peace and Milk

Carrabka dhadhan baad u tahay Indhaha carfi baad u tahay Dhegaha cod gob baad u tahay Nafta Cilmi baad u tahay Ciida dhereg baad u tahay (*2)

Ciyaaraha, Ciyaaraha la tumayana waa curashadaadii!!!      For the tongue you are taste      For the eyes: a sweet scent      For the ears: the sound of freedom      For the soul: knowledge      For the soil: fulfillment

     And these celebrations are for your birth.

Rahma Rose’s cover of Nimco Yasin’s Digtoor makes me get up and move. This song made me tear-up. #SoomaaliHabulaalto

forget an imaginary scene in Paris I am going to Addis and finding me my Nimcaan ;)  

Much love to both artists.

"Yet our best trained, best educated, best equipped, best prepared troops refuse to fight. Matter of fact, it's safe to say that they would ra...

GoogleTranslate told me that the page I was viewing was in Somali and offered to translate it- I agreed and here is the translation of Xassan Aadan Samatar's "Waan idiin Dhaliile" 

The following open letter was submitted by Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE), and is printed here with light editing. KANERE is an independent refugee free press operating from Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. According to KANERE, ‘In exercising a refugee free press, we speak in respect of human...

He was born in 1946 and he still lives in the house where he was born in section 3 - Eastleigh.