The secret Somali mixtapes
Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala
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The Golden Age of Somali Music
Somalia fell from grace during the civil war. The country was torn apart by rival factions and degenerated into a full blown civil war. Doctor jama started hargesa's first international book fair in two thousand eight. He thought, if i'm going to bring my country's culture back to books are one way to do it. But he quickly realized, hey, we're an oral society. I should be looking at casette tapes too,. A lot of them were left behind and forgotten at the start of the civil war - but now they've been rediscovered.
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