Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame ‘Hadraawi’: The poet and the man | Volume 1
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Mohamed Ibraahin ‘Hadraawi’ is the most famous of living Somali poets, described as ‘the Somali Shakespeare’. This collection of his poetry in English and in Somali marks the first bilingual printing of most of the poems included, and is the first volume in an intended series.
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