Suugaanta Soomaaliyeed

Somali Poetry

Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame “Hadraawi”·1992

Kow iyo toban gabay oo uu tiriyey Hadraawi, mid ka mid ah abwaannada Soomaaliyeed ee ugu waaweyn qarnigii labaatanaad, oo Norway lagu ururiyey 1992 si ay carruurta Soomaaliyeed ugu bartaan afkooda hooyo: laga bilaabo “Baaq” ilaa “Hooyo” iyo “Hablaha Geeska Afrika”. Waxaa ku jira taariikh nololeedka abwaanka oo af Soomaali ah iyo hordhac af Noorwiiji ah.Eleven poems by Hadraawi, one of the great Somali poets of the twentieth century, gathered in Norway in 1992 for Somali children learning their mother tongue: from “Baaq”, a call to a land rich in gifts, to “Hooyo”, the poem for the mother, and “Hablaha Geeska Afrika”, for the girls of the Horn of Africa. With a life of the poet in Somali and an introduction in Norwegian.