Why former model Halima Aden quit catwalking
‘I am quitting, and you guys have 24 hours to release me from all contracts,’ Halima Aden recalled of her abrupt announcement in 2020 that she was leaving the fashion…
‘I am quitting, and you guys have 24 hours to release me from all contracts,’ Halima Aden recalled of her abrupt announcement in 2020 that she was leaving the fashion…
By Mary Harper – Africa editor, BBC World Service News The Somali people are known as “a nation of poets” and there is no greater poet of modern times than…
By Hussein Ali Hussein “Call him a thinker, a philosopher, an intellectual, a revolutionary, a critic, a teacher, at every turn in the checkered history of his homeland, Hadrawi has delighted…
Somaliland is celebrating its 15th anniversary of the famed Hargeisa Book fair with the theme of Solidarity. The self-declared independent country hopes to bring the continent together through culture, arts…
By Mary Harper of BBC I was relaxing in a comfy chair when a woman came at me with a long, sharp knife. That first time, I was terrified. Now…
“This is your country.” That’s what everyone tells me and it’s true, my mother tongue does not surround me anywhere else, and in no other country does my face blend…
HOW DO ARTISTS view work? Take Mustafa Saeed, a self-taught Somali photographer and creative based in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, for whom work is therapy. For him, with the…
The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNPFA) has committed to continue its support to midwives and the midwifery profession in Somalia and Somaliland to ensure better health for…