Xaaji Maxamad Axmad Liibaan 'Axyaa Waddani' was a famous Somali poet.[1][2]
Haji Mohamed was born in Harardere district in 1904. He recorded his first poem in 1922 of a religious genre called Masafo. He would later join the Somali Youth League political party at its inception and write poems for the party to preach patriotic rhetoric for the Greater Somalia masses.[3] For these efforts he became known as "Axyaa Waddani", "the living Patriot", for his poems having far reaching impact outside of his realm.
Haji Mohamed is said to have recorded over several hundred poems captured on audio in Somali and Arabic.[4][5]
He died in Mogadishu in 1989.
References
edit- ^ Taxanaha taariikhda Soomaaliya. Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim. 2006. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-9549555-3-3.
- ^ Banti, Giorgio (1996). "Tradizione e Innovazione Nella Letteratura Orale dei Somali". Africa: Rivista Trimestrale di Studi e Documentazione dell'Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. 51 (2): 174–202. JSTOR 40761083.
- ^ Sababihii burburka Soomaaliya. Abdulkhadir Aroma. 1999. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-9681259-1-5.
- ^ Silsiladii Godane Galbay. Maamulka Laashin. 2000. p. 1.
- ^ Somalia, Muqdisho, Afgooye, and elsewhere, 1987. Indiana University. 1987. p. 1.
 | This article about an African poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a Somali writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |