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  • PoetryGudbanMaxamed Cabdille Xasan · 1907not translated into EnglishAfter the Illig agreement, which fixed the limits of their territory, the dervishes return to their former lands in the Nugaal and prepare to resume the war.Literature
  • PoetryThe News to RomeAnnagoo Taleex naalIsmaaciil Mire · 1913The verse account of a raid by the Somali Dervishes on the British colonial troops.Literature
  • PoetryOh Clansmen, Stop the WarWaar tolow colka joojaSalaan Carrabey · 1920A poem recited before two related troops about to clash, in a society where the poet's word weighs on war and peace.Literature
  • PoetryGubaAnonymous · 1923not translated into EnglishA verse contest in which Somali poets of rival clans answer one another for twenty years.Literature
  • NarrativeThe Life and Adventures of a SomaliIbrahim Ismaa'il · 1928A Somali sailor settled in England since the end of the Great War tells his life to an anthropologist friend, in a libertarian colony in the Cotswolds.Literature
  • TheatreLeopard Among the WomenShabeelnaagoodXasan Sheekh Muumin · 1968The golden age of Somali theatre begins, and the radio now pays poets and playwrights for their work.Literature
  • CinemaMiyi iyo MagaaloHajji Cagakombe · 1968The first feature-length fiction film made by a Somali, a few years after independence.Cinema
  • PoetrySiinleyMaxamed Ibraahin Warsame "Hadraawi" · 1973not translated into EnglishSince the coup of 1969, Somalia has lived under the dictatorship of Siad Barre, and criticism can only be expressed in veiled terms.Literature
  • NovelIgnorance is the Enemy of LoveAqoondarro waa u nacab jacaylFaarax M. J. Cawl · 1974In 1972, Somali received an official script, and the state launched literacy campaigns in the towns, then in the countryside.Literature
  • PoetryAllayl dumayRaage Ugaas · 1976A love lament by the most admired of the classical Somali poets, handed down from memory since the nineteenth century.Literature
  • PoetryPassing CloudFad GalbeedMaxamed Xaashi Dhamac “Gaarriye” · 1978A Somali lyric poem in which the setting sun flees before the beauty of a young woman.Literature
  • NovelSweet and Sour MilkNuruddin Farah · 1979In 1975, Somalia lives under the military dictatorship of Siad Barre, in a climate of surveillance and repression.Literature
  • NovelMaana-faayMaxamed Daahir Afrax · 1981not translated into EnglishMogadishu, a few years before the civil war, at the time of its greatest prosperity.Literature
  • CinemaThe Somali DervishSaid Salah Ahmed · 1985The shoot, in the mid-eighties, benefits from a subsidy from President Siad Barre, rare resources for Somali cinema.Cinema
  • CinemaGeedka noloshaAbdulkadir Ahmed Said · 1988A fable on the bond between people and nature, shot on 16 mm shortly before 1990 by a filmmaker of the national film agency.Cinema
  • NarrativeFar from MogadishuLontano da MogadiscioShirin Ramzanali Fazel · 1994In 1991, civil war begins to ravage Mogadishu, a city the author left twenty years earlier for Italy.Literature
  • DocumentaryFire EyesSoraya Mire · 1994A Somali documentary on excision, its consequences and what it says about the condition of women.Cinema