somalia

October 16, 2017

One Minnesota man was in Mogadishu for a job interview. Another was about to meet members of his family. Then Somalia's deadliest terrorist attack happened.

Development

How two Minnesotans turned their online popularity into big money for famine aid

The World

April 21, 2017

It began with a video of Liban Adam drinking a giant bowl of camel’s milk and ended in a one-month $80,000 fundraiser.

Music

For Somali immigrants, the generational divide plays out through music

The World

February 06, 2017

Memories of their country are sometimes triggered by songs. And the memories they bring up can be bittersweet, or sometimes just bitter.

Conflict

These young Somalis refuse to go 'home' when Kenya closes the world's largest refugee camp

GlobalPost

February 02, 2017

Since the Dadaab refugee camp complex opened 26 years ago, an entire generation has grown up there. For many Somalis born and raised in Dadaab, it's more than just a camp. It’s home. And Kenya plans to close it in May.

Media

Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe

The World

December 06, 2016

Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis make up the majority of the refugee population stuck on Lesbos and other Greek islands. So the Africans there to seek asylum are often overlooked.

Belief

Guilty verdict in Minnesota ISIS trial splinters Somali community

The World

May 10, 2016

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06/07/2016 - 4:45pm

Minneapolis friends stood trial for charges that included conspiracy to provide support to ISIS and commit murder abroad.

Economics

Somali Americans fight to save their lifeline of cash for relatives back home

The World

March 10, 2015

It’s getting more complicated to send money to Somalia, and that's a big deal in places like Minnesota where some Somali Americans have been wiring cash home for decades. Somali immigrants say the move is cutting off a vital lifeline — and may actually harm the fight against terror.

Somali Love Songs: A Hip Deep Introduction

April 02, 2014

Wellesley College Historian Lidwien Kapteijns is the lead advisor on Afropop’s Hip Deep program “Reconstructing Somalia, Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation.” Here she introduces the program with a tour of her office, introducing artists, recordings, books and ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/17698/somali-love-songs-a-hip-deep-introduction/"> Read more »</a>

Web-Exclusive Podcast: More Songs of Love and War from Somalia

April 02, 2014

Banning Eyre presents songs and stories from Somalia’s fertile independence era, and up to the present. This podcast is a supplement to Afropop’s Hip Deep program “Reconstructiong Somalia, Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation.” Somali scholar and former ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/17686/web-exclusive-podcast-reconstructing-somalia/"> Read more »</a>

Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation

March 28, 2014

This program offers a rare musical portrait of Somalia’s formative, pre-civil war years (1960-90). In a rising mood of patriotism and hope, Somalis sought to forge a culturally authentic, but also modern, national identity. Poetry, theatrical plays, and gorgeous, lyrical ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/17636/reconstructing-somalia-love-songs-at-the-birth-of-a-nation/"> Read more »</a>

somalia

Minnesota's Somali immigrants feel 'holes' left after deadly Mogadishu attack

How two Minnesotans turned their online popularity into big money for famine aid

For Somali immigrants, the generational divide plays out through music

These young Somalis refuse to go 'home' when Kenya closes the world's largest refugee camp

Three Somali journalists on Lesbos hope for the best — asylum in Europe

Guilty verdict in Minnesota ISIS trial splinters Somali community

Updated

Somali Americans fight to save their lifeline of cash for relatives back home

Somali Love Songs: A Hip Deep Introduction

Web-Exclusive Podcast: More Songs of Love and War from Somalia

Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation

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