Growing up in Minnesota I was fortunate enough to grow up around the Somali community. My family lived in the suburbs up until the end of my high school years but every weekend we would all make sure to go down to the city and chill with grandma. My grandma lived [...]
“Only a few people who read the title knows what this is about. We all know that genocide is one of the worst horrors that occurs in the world. Deliberate killing of an ethnic group. Ogaden is totally unknown to most readers. Yet here is one of the worst disasters happening. People are deliberately stoked [...]
I’m a lucky girl. Despite being a relatively obscure blogger, I’m in a fortunate position of having access to an amazing network of Somali intellectuals, writers, journalists, and film makers, who not only continue to push us harder, but act as a source of inspiration for many of our media pieces here at Afrolens.com. I’ve [...]
This is the 3rd trip made by Global Somali Response team. This time we went to Daffur, Kenya to bring the first wave of supplies directly to the refugees fleeing drought and famine. The 80 families we fed are mainly from the Somali-Kenyan border villages on the Kenyan side. Share on Facebook
It is excellent to see the President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif walking round neighbourhoods that he could only dream of capturing a week ago. Like love struck tourists in a new place he and his appointed ministers take turns to visit the Mogadishu football stadium and shopping areas previously under Al-Shabaab control. From the images [...]
Fed up of watching -from the comfort of our living rooms- untold horrors unfold in the Horn of Africa, fed up of hearing plans made but not seeing much done, fed up of making excuses for ourselves -excuses like we were too young or too poor or too far away from the problem to make [...]
Liboi Town 11 am, Monday 18th July 2011 The five of us clutch onto our tools of trade; cameras, pens, paper, mental snapshots. We are desperate to document the things we see, desperate to scratch them with a stick onto the sands of time. What I’ve been seeing seems too big for my eyes, and I [...]
Liboi town: 8.30 am, Monday 18th July 2011. The waiting is so intense, it’s as if we are waiting to start waiting. We sit in the car at Arif Centre, by a structure that reads: Peponi Hotel- For Quick Snacks. A bus is docked a few metres away and veiled women, in single file, climb [...]
Dadaab Town. Sunday 17th July 2011. 2.30 pm All five of us sit in the shade of a tree. I stare at a sign that says ‘Silence’, right above Matt’s head. I wonder, does it mean we should eat in silence? Is it a reminder to talk less and swallow more food for thought? The [...]
After a many requests from our friends & Family we have decided to put our heads together. A brainstorming session was held today together with Ahmed Farah (Co-founder RIYO Films and the Director of HCTV Africa), Abdisalaan Aato (Founder of Bartamaha and Wargelin) and Deeq. M. Afrika (Co-Founder of Global Somali Youth Agenda and Founder [...]
If I got a pound for every time I heard the above phrase used in reference to my preferred and may I add CHOSEN single status I’d be, well maybe not a complete millionaire, but I would certainly be well on my to a life full of luxuries and riches, and according to my mother, no one to share it with.
I don’t know if like me, you have recently noticed a sudden increase in the number of Somali organisations cropping up all over the net,
(1) MARYAN MUDUG! (a) She is very religious …(b) Listens to BBC Somali (c) She only knows how to read and write Somali (d) She is very tribal (e) She knows everybody and their tribe (f) Wears big jilbaab (g) For her, there is nothing called ‘Date’ and anyone interested in her should come to [...]
(radiowiilwaal.com) Come here. I need to talk to you. Sorry little brother, but I have to crush your dream. I know that I should tell you that you can be anything that you want to be, but I hate to break it to you, because I don’t want to break your heart. But as your [...]
After a long day in the library revising for my exams. I went to Starbucks near my university. I got my self a caramel macchiato and sat down for a bit. I noticed that there were group of people behind me who were apparently in a meeting. I didn’t really pay attention them as I [...]
