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🌴sound & visual archive of somali musical performances from the 20th/turn of the century

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🧵 a history of this song in covers:

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buunis - miyaad ii gargaareyn

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@Voltrad1ng you're welcome and thank you for listening! enjoy~~

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📻 yaa i lammaanaayo — xabiib sharaabi

i made a mixtape (my first, ever) of some of my favourite somali songs for RECOMP:OST on hong kong community radio. the mix is now up on soundcloud: https://t.co/V3iDyVrrPP

🖼️ album art by me @dhageeyso

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@safiyaaaay also i think it's so interesting (and iconic) that this song is so specifically about independence but has become the quintessential somali eid song, which is exactly what makes it so special imo—a rare case... i wonder when that happened

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ciid wanaagsan! here's *the* quintessential eid song, tubeec's "alla maanta ayaanta"

🌱 ciid mubarak and كل عام وانتم بخير! may this be a day of joy and liberation, and may you carry the goodness of this month with you today and beyond, until next ramadan.

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@safiyaaaay yep it is! ciid wanaagsan 🌱

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🎨 it's been 5 lunar years since i first shared this album cover, which i made using an illustration from a series of commemorative stamps from 1973 depicting somali cultural dances https://t.co/40Qgo0O9iH

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alla maanta ayaanta (iyo iida wanaagsan) — tubeec

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happy new year ~📻 here's saado cali sending off 1989, a year which was incredibly tumultuous for her (she spent time in prison for singing in criticism of the barre regime & its officials), with a performance of her classic 🎶"naftaydaa ku jiraban” at a new years event in xamar.

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"[o new year]
be good to us
become the [restorative] year we've been waiting for"

📺 tubeec performing "sanad waliba / kii noo hagaagee noqo loo hanweynyahay" in zurich, 1995 + khadra daahir & cabdinuur alaale leading a chorus of the new years classic at a celebration in london

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sanad wanaagsan~!🌱here's faadumo qaasim hilowle wishing somalis a happy & prosperous new year in 1988

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@keepnitreeall it's so good!

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@ontologoff queen (hello, it's been too long!) tysm!! i'm so glad it resonated, i feel like this song really needed to be shared and understood more widely, and i'm glad my interpretation could help convey its message 💗🫶🏽💗

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📻 i translated "dhulka sow anigu ma lihi?", one of the most powerful expressions of somali resistance against colonial occupation

🎞️ sung by dalays, caasha cabdow, khadiijo foodeey, khadiijo qalanjo, saafi ducaale, and sahra dawo on somali tv in the 80s; writ. by sangub in 1977

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@mohdj101 thank you so much for your words + for sharing your connection! this is my experience too and how i ended up forming such a deep attachment to our music... the echoes of yearning that run through it, especially in the context we first experienced the music, is profound

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@saxaarla thank you!

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@Voltrad1ng 💗💗💗

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@Voltrad1ng thank you!! can't wait to share what i've been working on ~ ☀️

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https://t.co/0ssYUrgol5

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ninki dilay walaalkeen
annana waa noo dan leeyahay
daqar baa gaari doonee
afrikooy daya!

diidnaye ogow
dalkayaga ninkii
doonaayayow
inuu duudsiya rabow
annagu diidnaye ogow!

📽️somalis protesting kenyan, british & french occupation in the 60s + solidarity rallies in xamar

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"maantaay curatoo
mataaneeysee
aan maalno hasheena maandeeqee"

today is her 🐪 first delivery
she has given birth to twins (north & south)
let's milk our she-camel maandeeq [she-who-fulfills-the-mind, somalia]

happy independence day soomaaliyeey, aan maalno hasheena maandeeq 🇸🇴

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📻 afrikooy daya! — 📝 written by siciid xarawo and sung by somali schoolchildren; video is an edit of footage of protests in the nfd in 1963, djibouti in 1967 and rallies held in mogadishu in solidarity w/ nfd somalis, djibouti & somali galbeed in january & march 1967

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ninki dilay walaalkeen
annana waa noo dan leeyahay
daqar baa gaari doonee
afrikooy daya!

diidnaye ogow
dalkayaga ninkii
doonaayayow
inuu duudsiya rabow
annagu diidnaye ogow!

📽️somalis protesting kenyan, british & french occupation in the 60s + solidarity rallies in xamar