Raage Ugaas

Raage Ugaas Warfaa was born near Sasabane, in the Dhagaxbuur region, today in Ethiopia; his father was an ugaas, a lineage chief within the Ogaadeen clan. He studied first by following a sheikh's itinerant group of pupils, then in Harar. A poet of the nineteenth century, he ranks among the greatest of the Somali tradition: asked who their greatest poet is, Somalis most often answer with his name.

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• PoetryAllayl dumayRaage Ugaas · 1976Literature