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Maxamed Daahir Afrax

Died in 2021

Maxamed Daahir Afrax was born in 1952 in Jariiban, in the Mudug region, completed his primary schooling in Mogadishu, then went on to university in Yemen. A journalist and writer in Somali, Arabic and English, he settled in London, where he took a doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He founded the journal Hal-Abuur, devoted to Somali literature and culture, served as a member of parliament and minister of state, and headed the Regional Academy of the Somali Language, which he had helped to create. He died in October 2021.

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