Hassan Sheikh Moomin

Hassan Sheikh Mumin (* 1931 in Zeila , British Somaliland , now Somalia , † January 16, 2008 in Oslo , Norway ) was a Somali poet , songwriter and author . He is the author of Samo ku waar , today's national anthem of Somaliland .

Life

Hassan Sheikh Mumin was born in 1931 in Zeila in what was then the protectorate of British Somaliland . When he was nine years old, the family moved to Boorama , where he graduated from Koran and conventional schools.

He campaigned for Somali independence and social and political change, joined the first party, the Somali Youth League , founded in 1943, and wrote his first published poem for a rally in Boorama in the early 1950s. During this time he worked as a teacher and trader. After Somalia gained independence (1960), he was employed by Radio Mogadishu from 1965 to 1968 as a poet, reader and playwright, after 1968 he worked in the Department of Culture of the Ministry of Education and was also active in literature and radio.

When Siad Barre took power in 1969 and cultural workers were exposed to increased control and censorship under his authoritarian regime, Hassan Sheikh Moomin left Mogadishu and moved to neighboring Djibouti . He later returned to Boorama.

His most important play is Shabeelnaagood (1968), which deals with the social position of women, urbanization and the change in traditional customs and the importance of education and is the only Somali play in 1974 under the title Leopard Among the Women by Bogumił Andrzejewski in English has been translated.

After his death in Oslo, Sheikh Moomin was buried in his father's mausoleum in Boorama. He was posthumously awarded the highest cultural award in Djibouti.

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SURNAME	Moomin, Hassan Sheikh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Somali poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zeila , Somalia
DATE OF DEATH	January 16, 2008
Place of death	Oslo , Norway