The secret Somali mixtapes
Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala
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Somali, a History of Poems and Songs
The somali language, as it's written to day using latin script, only became a written language in 19 72. So naturally, when the casette tape came around, it quickly became this vital tool for somales to start recording their rich history of poems and songs. I have to play some for you guys. You have to listen to some ofs that're what we should do. A aa ha ha. Elbow singing.
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