Xasan Sheekh Muumin

Xasan Sheekh Muumin was born in 1931 in Zeila, in the British protectorate of Somaliland, and followed his family to Borama at the age of nine. A member of the Somali Youth League, he composed his first public poems for one of its gatherings, in the early fifties, then was a poet, reciter and playwright at Radio Mogadishu from 1965 to 1968, before joining the cultural department of the Ministry of Education. Under the military regime, he went to Djibouti, then returned to Borama. He died in Oslo on 16 January 2008.

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• TheatreLeopard Among the WomenShabeelnaagoodXasan Sheekh Muumin · 1968Literature