I was lucky enough to be asked by the BBC to make a documentary about the Somali poet Hadrawi who lives in Bur'ao in Somaliland. You can listen to the programme here: The Somali Shakespeare
I took lots of photos while making the programme.
I took lots of photos while making the programme.
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| Hadrawi and me |
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| Festive car (I didn't take this photo) |
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| Independence celebrations (I didn't take this photo) |
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| There are many poets in Somaliland including this policeman who has published a book of poetry |
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| Delicious fresh fish in the port town of Berbera |
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| Hadrawi and his wife at home in Bur'ao |
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| Pomegranate growing in Hadrawi's favourite hotel in Bur'ao, City Plaza |
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| No guns or knives allowed in City Plaza |
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| Interviewing Hadrawi |
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| Hadrawi holding some of his manuscripts |
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| Hadraw's personal assistant, Mohammed Suleiman, who makes sure the poems are kept safely. |
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| City Plaza hotel |
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| A Syrian doctor who had fled from Aleppo was staying at the hotel. He works in Erigavo. |
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| A poet |
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| Recording the sea |
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| Outside Hadrawi's house |
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| Hadrawi's wife |
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| This young camel herder sang beautiful camel songs |
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| Livestock market |
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| These students in Hargeisa all knew Hadrawi's poems by heart |
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| Another poet |
I am Somali Young poetry, i live in Galkacyo Somalia, i know more about Hadrawi Poets, and he is living legend, but Hassan Ganey who appears last picture above this comment is very big poetry i love him.
ReplyDeleteHadrawi is a big legend
ReplyDeleteindeed you did hard work,Hadrawi is the one beloved in a whole of Somalia and horn Africa. every Somalis knows his stories but many people those are in an other countries have not any idea who is,this step u did will help him to put over his poems many people those adore poems,
ReplyDeletethank u again.