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The Provincial Museum of Hargeisa

#HargeisaMuseum, #Somaliland's 1st #Museum, established in 1977! Inspired by traditional architecture, it showcased #ethnographic exhibitions featuring 4k items. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in 1988. Let's preserve cultural history!

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Weeklong Hargeisa International Book Fair 2024 Wraps Up, As Hargeisa Cultural Center reels with visiting patrons attending the expo event

By M.A. Egge The Hargeisa International Book Fair, which held its 17th exhibition this year, has just concluded at the Hargeisa Cultural Center after running for about a week. The exposition had the center reel with the multitude of people who thronged it to attend the event in their thousands. The 17th exhibition, which this year has had its theme as ‘”Togetherness”, with this year’s hosting…

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KACAAN | There was no choice.

Half a century ago, on 21st October, 1969, following the death of former Somali president, the Somali National Army took over power filling a political and institutional vacuum brought about by internal turmoil, incompetence and a corrupt government.

The October revolution was the beginning of a new era, which many consider the golden age of the modern Somali nation, the end of which was, nevertheless, disastrous.

The Mastermind

The October revolution (better known as The KACAAN) was engineered and led by Major General Mohamed Siad Barre.

Barre was born in Shiilaabo, in what is now the Somali State of Ethopia, in about 1910. S. Barre travelled to Lugh and Mogadishu in the then Somalia Italiana for what formal schooling he had and later joined the Corpo Zaptie, Polizia Africana Italiana.

After British Commonwealth forces overran the Italian colony early in 1941, S. Barre went on a course run by the King's African Rifles at Kabetti, in Kenya, and thereafter was employed in the special branch of the British Colonial Police, which took control of the Corpo Zaptie. This experience was his introduction to political intrigue, at which he proved adept. He rose to the highest rank then possible for an indigenous Somali.

In 1949, when Italy was granted United Nations Trusteeship over Somalia to prepare for independence after 10 years, S. Barre was awarded a two-year scholarship to the Carabinieri Police College in Italy, and thereafter he attended courses in politics and administration in Mogadishu. He was the first Somali to be commissioned as a full police officer.

When Somalia's own police force was formed, S. Barre had won accelerated promotion to the rank of Brigadier-General of Police. Barre opted for the Somali National Army on its formation in April 1960. He was one of its deputy commanders and was promoted to succeed the Commander-in-Chief when the latter died in 1965.

The Revolution

On 15 October 1969, Somalia's second president, H.E. Abdirashid Ali Sharmake, was assassinated in the town of Las-Anod in northern Somalia by a policeman whilst touring a drought-stricken area.

In a stark breach of the constitution of the newly founded State, several members of the parliament recommended that a candidate belonging to the same sub-clan as the assassinated president should inherit the post. It was agreed that Haji Muse Boqor, a Mogadishu businessman and close relative of the late president, be elected. As a result of the rampant corruption and vote-buying culture prevalent at the time, a bidding war was initiated where corrupt candidates were bidding on the price of the presidency. Not surprisingly, Haji Muse Bogor was leading the group (with a payment approximated at £4,000, according to some). A deal was struck and the parliament was set to vote for the fixed candidate in exchange for promised bribe, promising a continuation of the status quo.

The days following the assassination of the president were a clear demonstration of incompetence and a total chaos, diminishing the support and the trust the public had in the venal government. The ineptitude and endemic corruption practices not only aggravated the majority of the Somali population but the armed forces as well. It became clear that the nation was in a dire need of salvation.

In the early morning of 21 October 1969, the date which was set for the parliament to convene and present the presidency to the agreed candidate, Haji Muse Boqor, Somalia’s military intervened and seized all the strategic points in the capital and the main streets, immediately arresting all the members of parliament, several politicians linked to tribal chiefs or foreign interests and the lobbyists.

On 24 October, in a broadcasted speech, General S. Barre explained the reason behind the take-over:

"I would like to state clearly the reason for the take-over of the country by Armed Forces. I want our people to know that everything is going on as usual and that no problems have arisen as a result of the Revolution. The entire country is in the hands of the National Army and the Police Force. Intervention by Armed Forces was inevitable. It was no longer possible to ignore the evil things like corruption, bribery, nepotism, theft of public funds, injustice and disrespect to our religion and the laws of the country. The laws were thrust aside and people did whatever they wanted. No group or family can live happily if they do not respect their laws and regulations. There will be no development or any sort of progress for a nation if the laws of the country are forgotten. The corruption has culminated in the assassination of prominent leaders of the country. Somalia was on the point of collapse, not economically and politically alone, but disaster threatened historically and nationally as well. If we look back on recent events in the country, we will see how a peaceful land was changing to violence. Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, the late president, was assassinated by a simple soldier who did not know him and who had no quarrel with him. We will not give a chance to wrong doers and law breakers.

We will abolish bribery, nepotism and tribalism. Tribalism was the only way in which foreigners got their chance of dividing our people. We will close all roads used by colonialists to enter our country and into our affairs. We will build up a great Somali nation, strongly united and welded together to live in peace. We will make sure the people respect the Islamic religion, if necessary, by all the force and strength we have. We will make Somalia a respected country in its internal and external policies. I would like to ask all Somalis to come out and build their nation, a strong nation, to use all their efforts, energy, wealth and brains in developing their country. At all costs avoid begging. The Imperialists, who always want to see people in hunger, disease and ignorance, will oppose us in order that we may beg them. They will spread many types of lies to try to misinterpret our noble aims and objectives.

They will try to persuade the world, and even other African states, to believe their lies. Apart from these lies, they will call us many evil names. They are, at present, collecting arms, money and many other necessary things for them to work against us. We are very happy and thankful to see the unity of the Armed Forces and the Somali population. The nation has given us true support for which we are very grateful. Nothing will harm us if we go on supporting each other for the sake of our country and nation. Lets us join hands in crushing the enemy of our land." - Barre, 1969

Notable Achievements

The Supreme Revolutionary Council established large-scale public works programs and successfully implemented an urban and rural literacy campaign, which helped dramatically increase the literacy rate. In addition to a nationalization program of industry and land, the new regime's foreign policy placed an emphasis on Somalia's traditional and religious links with the Arab world, eventually joining the Arab League (AL) in 1974. That same year, General Barre also served as chairman of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU).

One of the principal objectives of the revolutionary regime was the adoption of a standard national writing system. Shortly after coming to power, Barre introduced the Somali language (Af Soomaali) as the official language of education, and selected the modified Latin script developed by the Somali linguist Shire Jama Ahmed as the nation's standard orthography. In 1972, all government employees were ordered to learn to read and write Somali within six months. The reason given for this was to decrease a growing rift between those who spoke the colonial languages, and those who didn't.

The Downfall

Part of Barre's time in power was characterized by oppressive dictatorial rule, including persecution, jailing and torture of political opponents and dissidents.

By the mid-1980s, more resistance movements supported by Ethiopia's communist Derg administration had sprung up across the country. Barre responded by ordering punitive measures against the clans he perceived as locally supporting the guerillas, especially in the northern regions. The clampdown included bombing of cities, with the northwestern administrative center of Hargeisa, a Somali National Movement (SNM) stronghold, among the targeted areas in 1988. The bombardment was led by General Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan, Barre's son-in-law, and resulted in the deaths of many civillians in the north.

Other Ethiopian-backed rebels who fought Barre's regime include; SSDF, USC and SPM, all of which were clan-based rebellion.

Eventually, the rebels, who lacked a shared post-Barre vision for the country, succeeded in ousting Barre and forced him out of the capital, throwing the country into chaos and civil war.

Barre's regime came to an end on 26th January, 1991.

My Note

Even though the Somali people have grown widely apart and portions of our history may be considered as contentious, and sometimes polarising, we should preserve every bit of our history, celebrate the positive, learn from the negative and use it to build a better future for the generations to come.

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Somaliland:Somaliland: The 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair 2021 Kicks off

Somaliland:Somaliland: The 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair 2021 Kicks off

Somalilandsun:The Vice President HE Abdurrahman Abdillahi Ismail “Salyi’i “was among the hundreds of people attending the opening ceremony of the 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair which started on  Saturday   of July 24, 2021 and is continue upto the 29th  of this month at the   Hargeisa cultural center . The Hargeisa International Book Fair is an annual cultural event in Hargeisa. The…

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SOMALILAND: 14th Edition of Hargeisa International Book Fair Kicks Off

SOMALILAND: 14th Edition of Hargeisa International Book Fair Kicks Off

By Goth M. Goth The Vice President HE Abdurrahman Abdillahi Ismail “Salyi’i “was among the hundreds of people attending the opening ceremony of the 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair which started on  Saturday   of July 24, 2021 and is continue upto the 29th  of this month at the   Hargeisa cultural center . The Hargeisa International Book Fair is an annual cultural event in Hargeisa. The…

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Somaliland: The 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair #HIBF2021 kicks off

Somaliland: The 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair #HIBF2021 kicks off

Hargeisa Somaliland – The Vice President HE Abdurrahman Abdillahi Ismail “Salyici “was among the hundreds of people attending the opening ceremony of the 14th Hargeisa International Book Fair #HIBF2021 started on Saturday 24th to 29th of July 24, 2021 at the Hargeisa cultural center. The Hargeisa International Book Fair is an annual cultural event in Hargeisa. The week-long event, which was first…

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Tirsit Yetbarek Seme is an emerging scholar with a wider area of expertise mainly focusing on Education and Research. Her research area includes, indigenous knowledge, research methods, communications, peace and security and social anthropology with language and cultural lens. She currently works as research coordinator for Hargeisa Cultural Center in Somaliland where she runs an academic platform called Academic Dialogue in Hargeysa (ADIH) that aims for knowledge production, sharing and preservation. She also lectures at Jigjiga University and supervises research at both graduate and undergraduate level. Join the #LCMBV Facebook Live Chat Sessions by 5pm WAT/7pm EAT for an educative and enlightening interaction with our amiable guest. #LCMBV is proudly Librarian💃💃💃💃 https://www.instagram.com/p/CRJA8UrjbWP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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About Hargeisa  : Hargeisa Somali: Hargeysa, Arabic: هرجيسا‎‎ is the second largest city in Somalia after Mogadishu, situated in the Woqooyi Galbeed region in Northwestern Somalia.,

About London : London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, is a 21st-century city with the history stretching back to Roman times. At its center stand the imposing Houses of Parliament, the iconic ‘Big Ben’ clock tower and Westminster Abbey, site of British monarch coronations. Across the Thames River, the London Eye observation wheel provides panoramic views of the South Bank cultural complex and the entire city.

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Somaliland: The Hargeysa Cultural Center and community development in Somaliland

#Somaliland: The #Hargeysa Cultural Center and community development in Somaliland #HIBF2016 @JamaMusse @Gobannimo

Most maps made of the Horn of Africa today do not represent Somaliland on its northern limb, reflecting the subjectivity of a world that chooses to classify the twenty-five-year-old country, at most, as an autonomous region of Somalia. This omission, however, reflects some of the formative challenges of postcolonial and post-conflict development for Somalilanders. With few international…

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Somaliland Calls For African Solidarity Through Book Fair

#Celebrating its 15th #anniversary of the famed #HargeisaBookFair with the theme of #solidarity, #Somaliland hopes to bring the continent together through #culture, #arts, and #creativity. #HIBF2022 #HIBF #Senegal @SMane_Officiel #Hargeisa @Dahabshil

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HCC facilitates educational opportunities for the public every year leading up to HIBF 2024

The Hargeisa Cultural Center has allowed different citizens to benefit from different education offered. The education provided by HCC before HIBF includes a Somali creative writing course, Professional library and Archive Training, and a GIS course. A message posted by HCC on their Twitter account reads; “Thank you to all the talented participants who participated in our pre-HIBF2024 Somali…

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The EU intends to preserve the Laas Geel caves “The Altamira of Somaliland”, discovered in 2002, the best and oldest cave art in Africa

By Xavier Aldekoa, Laas Geel (Somaliland)

Fear of demons saved them. Elderly Moussa Abdi Jama, 77, squints to protect himself from the sun and looks up at the rocks he once feared. “We all thought it was a cursed place, the home of the djin, the evil spirits, we didn’t know it was something valuable.” Moussa was 19 years old when that fear overcame: it was a day of lightning and thunder. He was a goat herder and his flock had taken refuge from the storm in the caves of a rocky and steep elevation in the middle of an arid plain, so he had no choice but to go look for his animals. Then he saw them. On the stone walls of some twenty caves and rock shelters, there were hundreds of brightly colored cave paintings depicting human figures, cows, dogs, and wild animals such as giraffes, antelopes, hyenas, monkeys, or jackals.

A Somalilander man visiting Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

Moussa Abdi Jama: “We all thought it was a cursed place, we did not know it was something valuable”

“It was the first time that I saw those paintings. I was scared, but I was surprised. I liked them. People said that these figures were the work of the devil and were made with human blood, but I spent the night there with my goats and nothing happened.” On that rainy day, Moussa unwittingly witnessed one of the greatest cave gems in Africa: the paintings by Laas Geel. Also one of the last treasures that has arrived practically intact to this day.

Located at an elevation of 950 meters in the middle of a stone desert and dry bushes, halfway between the port of Berbera and Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, the place remained hidden from the international community until November 2002, when a team French archaeologists visited the area and reported a find from yesteryear: the caves contained the oldest known cave paintings in Africa. In total, 350 figures of humans, wild and domestic animals, and enigmatic geometric symbols between 5,000 and 11,000 years old, which are considered the best example of rock art on the African continent due to their variety and their almost miraculous state of preservation.

Detail of Laas Geel’s paintings (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

“People said that these figures were the work of the devil, made with human blood,” says Moussa.

Most of the pieces, very stylized and with light lines, retain an excellent chromatic richness. Old Moussa brushes his graying hair and smiles at the question of whether he knows what the explanation is. It happened, he says, thanks to the devil: that fear of Jinn transmitted for generations kept the inhabitants of the area away from the caves and kept that prehistoric diamond unscathed throughout the centuries.

Climbing the steep hill leading to the first caves, Somalilander Ahmed Ibrahim Awale, founder of the environmental organization Candlelight and one of the greatest experts in Laas Geel, escapes a gesture of pure satisfaction. For Awale, it is a place of undeniable importance, the Somali version of the Lascaux caves in France or Altamira in Spain, as it is the oldest Neolithic art site in the entire Horn of Africa.

Awale is a tall man and must slightly hunch as he enters one of the openings in the rock, the ceiling of which is filled with red and white figures, colored with pigments drawn from root sap, sand, or dust from crushed rocks. Above his head, a human figure dressed in a white robe raises his arms in front of a multicolored cow with exaggerated horns. “This was a place reserved for some kind of spiritual ceremony. A magical place. These cave drawings show us how those people lived in those ancient times and another important thing: how climate change has transformed the ecosystem and the way of life in this area”.

A Somaliland soldier in one of the rocky shelters of Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

The treasure is made up of 350 figures of humans, animals and geometric symbols between 5,000 and 11,000 years old.

The current aridity, with temperatures that touch 40 degrees, was not always the norm and from the height of the caves one can guess two sandy tongues that converge just at the foot of the mountain. “Here before there were two rivers and permanent fresh water,” explains Awale, “it was a green place, full of vegetation, so in the paintings we find wild animals that no longer exist here in our days such as giraffes, antelopes or hyenas, but also domestic ones, like cows or dogs. And yet no camel appears, because its introduction from Arabia was later. “

And it’s not just Laas Geel. In the surroundings there are several more rocks with cave paintings, although not of the same importance or so well preserved, as well as tombs and prehistoric funerary monuments. All of them are vestiges of the nomadic shepherd caravans that sailed the region for millennia and dotted rock art various points of the geography of Northeast Africa such as the basalt engravings in Djibouti, the paintings of Harar in Ethiopia or the rock sculptures of Eritrea. But while that cultural heritage in neighboring countries was studied for decades, the political instability in Somalia relegated the gems of the past within its territory to oblivion.

Awale has visited Laas Geel dozens of times, whose name means camel pit, but he especially remembers the first time. “I came shortly after the French archaeological mission and when I saw them it was truly amazing. I have seen hundreds of archaeological sites but nothing like this, it is wonderful to be able to study such a well-preserved place”. Between the works, there are interactions difficult to observe in cave paintings such as one in which a woman gives her dog a drink. “These are unusual everyday scenes that give us extremely valuable information about what life was like before the arrival of Islam.”

Nicolás Berlanga, ambassador of the European Union in Somaliland/Somalia, during a visit to the caves (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

The 12-month, 200,000-euro EU plan will be implemented by the Red Sea Cultural Center

Awale speaks passionately about caves but also with some relief. For two decades, he called out with the Somali scientific community for efforts to preserve an endangered heritage. He feels that their voices have finally been heard.

Eighteen years after its discovery by the West, an international plan seeks to reactivate a heritage that had also been neglected for political reasons. Although Somaliland, which declared itself independent from Somalia in 1991, is a de facto country, with its own constitution, government or even currency, it is not an internationally recognized state and depends on the Mogadishu executive in the south, most concerned with stabilizing a territory engulfed in chaos and violence for two decades.

Now a multinational effort aims to safeguard Laas Geel. Earlier this month, the European Union announced a 12-month plan, endowed with 200,000 euros, to be implemented by the Red Sea Cultural Center, based in the Somali capital. The project, supported by a report carried out by specialists and archaeologists from the University of Granada, aims to protect the site with the installation of fences – currently anyone can touch the paintings with their hands -, underline its importance at international conferences and improve the access to the caves to turn Laas Geel into a tourist attraction.

A Somaliland soldier drinks water on a hill near Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

Ahmed Ibrahim Awale: “It teaches us how it was lived then and how climate change has transformed the ecosystem”

For the European Union ambassador to Somaliland/Somalia, the Spanish Nicolás Berlanga, the paintings are not only important for the African country, they are a world heritage. “The origin of humanity comes from this area of ​​the Horn of Africa and therefore these vestiges are part of our own history. When we help build roads or a water system, it is for the benefit of local people, but in cultural matters, borders are transcended. The benefit of its conservation is for everyone”.

Culture can also be an element of diplomacy. In the plan promoted by the European community includes the proposal for Laas Geel to be declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and for this, understanding between the governments of Somalia and Somaliland has been essential, since only the first, which refuses to recognize Northern self-determination has legal authority to formally present the report. For Berlanga, “it is difficult to agree Somalia and Somaliland on political or security issues, but culture can be a vehicle to build bridges between the two.”

The director of the Red Sea Cultural Center and author of several books on the history of Somaliland, Dr. Jama Muse Jama, also advocates that the caves be an intergenerational bridge. In addition to taking care of the conservation and conditioning works, your organization will organize events throughout the country to explain the importance of the archaeological site. “It is an awareness project in which we want to involve young people so that they learn about the history and heritage of their country and appreciate the preservation of this world heritage site.”

If the efforts pay off, it will never again be necessary for the fear of Jinn to keep Laas Geel’s treasure safe.

A detail from Laas Geel’s paintings, with a disproportionate cow and a human figure in a white robe. Whites and reddish are the predominant tones (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

A Somalilander man visiting Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

Detail of Laas Geel’s paintings (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

A Somaliland soldier in one of the rocky shelters of Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

Nicolás Berlanga, ambassador of the European Union in Somaliland/Somalia, during a visit to the caves (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

A Somaliland soldier drinks water on a hill near Laas Geel (XAVIER ALDEKOA)

This article was transtlated from Spanish to English by Googletranslater, you can read here for orginal language

Altamira

The Cave of Altamira is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands. The earliest paintings were applied during the Upper Paleolithic, around 36,000 years ago. The site was discovered in 1868 by Modesto Cubillas.

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Somaliland: US delegation visits Hargeisa Cultural Centre

Somaliland: US delegation visits Hargeisa Cultural Centre

The Chairman of the Hargeisa Cultural center, Dr. Jama M. Jama, gave detailed information about the center’s services to the American delegation that visited yesterday. Although no further information has been released, Dr. Jama was seen explaining the arts and crafts depicted at the cultural center.   He showed a room that is collected in the remains of the burned materials in the Waheen…

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Somaliland: US delegation tour Somaliland historical site

Somaliland: US delegation tour Somaliland historical site

Foreign Minister Dr. Essa Keyd led a delegation from the US Parliament to visit the port of Berbera, to see first and the progress being made. The visiting US House of Representatives delegation has visited various sites, including universities and the private sector. Areas visited include Barwaqo University – Hargeisa Cultural Center, Edna Maternity and Children’s Hospital. Other areas visited…