Well said Ghanima, this topic should be honored with a ''sticky'' (Nomadique's ''Good news about Somalia thread'' aswell) What do you say Admin,LST? let's keep it positive!

MMA i find his post more offensive and sinister than my reference to the place you go to for Nr2

lool you probably contradicted his view of Somalis and that is: they don't play piano like Black people in general don't Ski lol

Khalaf read the whole story some parts were really 'deep' and he said what every self respecting Somali feels deep down inside about todays situation and he was a bodyguard of a Somali security company protecting Somali entrepreneurs and foreigners not some silly militia man with no life

MMA we need more pianists it makes us a diverse people and not monolith, i know of two Somalis who are into this type of instruments and music and are potential pianists(and something else i don't know what the name is)..these folk will usher Somali music into new dimensions btw i watched this Chinese movie and those folk are qataar with the piano this sparked my interest.

Naxar you would make a great ******. [ December 10, 2007, 12:06 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

well NomadQueen a Turkish friend once said to me if an Anatolian person talks like a Turk, dresses like a Turk and calls him/herself a Turk the person is a TURK looooool i spilled my drink her english is mediocre and she mimicked the..if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck then it must be a duck line lolol but there is some truth to it.. i've seen non-Somalis with more appreciation and love for our people than some of our own compatriots maybe that's what he ment..

World class Pianist Dawoud is a world class pianist/keyboardist with both the “Tools” and the “Talent”. He plays impeccable grooves that audiences demanding a good musical foundation could appreciate. His alluring style gradually captivates, while his voicing and technique open your mind to all the subtle colors and emotion music has to offer. His diverse background has allowed him to have the flexibility to not only play, but also compose in many different and varied styles of music. Dawoud was born in Baltimore, Maryland. About age four, his journalist father moved the family to the Washington, DC, area, where Dawoud and a younger brother were raised. His father and brother, as well as his interior-designer American mother live in Washington, DC. Born in America, Dawoud's multi-cultural African roots, through his father, stretch from Kenya to Ethiopia and Somalia. He has visited the Continent in his teens. He has been playing the piano since the age of seven, and has played professionally since the age of fifteen. He was formally trained in Classical and Jazz Piano. His training began with private instruction in Classical Piano. He attended High School at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he received further Classical instruction. For several summers in his youth, Dawoud performed with the locally-acclaimed "Lettumplay" youth jazz ensemble of Washington, D.C. His Jazz Piano training was furthered as a Jazz Studies Major/Piano Minor at Howard University, where he was trained by some of the country’s most respected pianists in both the Jazz and Classical styles for over four years. While at Howard University, Dawoud was a member of the Howard University Marching Band, where he performed as a saxophonist. Dawoud also trained on many other instruments while at Howard University, including Cello, Viola, Oboe, Trumpet and Flute. Dawoud’s influences are a derivative of many of today's great jazz artists, including Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Bob James, Jeff Lorber, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Camilo and Joe Sample. Dawoud has played with groups such as Marion Meadows, Najee, John Scofield, Kenny Lattimore, Joe McBride, MeShell Indegeocello, The Graingers, Stacey Lattisaw, Marcus Johnson, MSP, Spur of the Moment and a host of others. http://www.dawoudsaid.com/dawoud_said_bio.htm His name and surname are typical Soomaali His tri-origin in the Horn is typical for a Soomaali His forehead is typical Soomaali but is he really a Soomaali?

May he Rest in Peace! Great Leader.

Nuune and others how does it work?? my greatest achievement on the PC was installing the new Windows Messenger all by myself...so help me please! so let me get this straight i first need a domain name and then a hosting account, correct? what i need is a: -front page -small forum -multiple pages where i can put my info on multiple issue's(10/12 pages) what would that cost me monthly? am i able to buy a whole year or several years in advance or is it just montly payments? i will click the links you guys provided, thanks in advance!

~100km/h lol i'm bad when it comes to speed like if there's a tree at the end of the road and i am driving my bro's car at the same speed as you guys 100% sure i will hit the tree full on because i get hypnotized at those speedlevels it's like standing at the edge of the Empire State building and you suddenly feel like your about to fall or you feel like jumping

Somali women all the way but i used to have a fetish with Afar and Beja women

although the Somali army reached close to Finfinne, the old Oromo capital that has been re-baptized by the Amharas as Addis Ababa, finally Somalia lost the war because the late Soviet Union abandoned Somalia Interesting. I heard they reached Nazareth but i have to do more research on this subject. I do know of one Somali commander that stood infront of the Gates of Dhir Dhaba and practically owned it with the enemy on the run but he was called back by some dumb official in the Capital(1) this foolish order gave the Ethiopians time to regroup, if we had those cities we would have won even if the Cubans came to rescue them cause Harar,Jigjigga and Dhir Dhaba were part of the main supply line routes for the Ethiopian army. When Dhir Dhaba was taken for a short time the army took out the second largest airport of Ethiopia and reduced their capicity to resist our forces and if the army had pushed on to the Dhir-Dhaba-Djibouti rail line Somalia would have been able to starve Ethiopia into submission(2). without those cities today's political situation in the horn of Africa would have been different and there would have been a Oromia,Afaria,Sidama etc etc other countries neighbouring Great Somalia part of a strong economic and Political bloc and Eritrea would have no fears of the little territory called Abyssinia invading them. (1)Gilkes Revolution and Military Strategy.pg724 (2}Panickly officials had feared the worst according to one of them: If Somalia captures the city of Dhir Dawa where we have the second largest airforce then it could easily use this base and threaten Addis Ababa to the point that the government would be obliged to capitulate -E-S war revisited pg.647

I wonder what i would do if the person i'm close to had HIV, i know her history so that's impossible but i would prefer dying young and happy with her than moving on in grief but damn i remember as a kid when me and my brothers played ball and pretended to be famous stars, every time i picked my hero Magic Johnson they said you will die of a disease one year from now this used to upset me but sh1t 13 years later Magic is still alive.......looooooooooooool

Sharmarkee lol@ your response usually when members accuse another forumer of being a limitless ignoramus they have a history of past encounters from which they deduce the person belongs to the beforementioned category of ignorance. We on the other hand don't have a history on this forum so caadi iskadhig sxb it's like i hurt your feelings or something which wasn't even my intention. I used 'fables' as a substitute for 'hearsay dogma' i have seen in the past people claiming 70% of the Somali youth are in incarceration, 55% have abortions, 89% use Jaad and all of these claims were accompanied by: ''i saw once one this program..(program not mentioned)'' or a recent study says..(study not mentioned) etc etc again my intentions were not to demean you, if i offended you i apoligize, this is internet sxb sometimes words reflect a different intention from what it's author projected.

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Somali Students are making progress in the US New Immigrants in Minnesota: The Somali Immigration and Assimilation Today more Somali students are attending schools with English as the language of primary instruction. More public schools must teach non-English speaking students in Minnesota. Furthermore, Somali parents and Mentors are stressing the importance of Education to the younger generation, and advising them to stay away from gangs,drugs and other crime related activities. [*] Somali student enrollment is the third highest compared to the Hmong and the Spanish speakers in Minnesota.[*] [*]Somali student drop out rate(12.7%) is higher than the Hmong students(5.9%) but much lower than the Spanish students(23%)[*] [*]Somali students outperform the Hmong Chinese, the Cambodian and Spanish students in Math.[*] [*]Somali students reading profiency of the English Language is the Highest of all immigrant groups in Minnesota.[*] Journal of Developing Societies -Kebba Darboe

topic about Somali Media growth all over the country

Education has a Champion in Somalia By Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer November 11, 2007 JOWHAR, Somalia — A nation overwhelmed by civil war, flooding and, most recently, the threat of starvation might be forgiven for overlooking the back-to-school season. But Abdulkhadir Wasuge has devoted his life to making sure his corner of Somalia never forgets. Over the last 14 years, Wasuge has emerged as a leading education advocate in this Horn of Africa country, one of many unsung heroes who have stepped up to fill the void left by the government's collapse in 1991. As he does each year, Wasuge, 43, recently made the rounds in Jowhar, 60 miles north of Mogadishu, the capital, collecting enrollment figures, assessing teacher curricula and reminding parents and community leaders about the importance of putting children in school. His Shabelle Educational Umbrella, which functions as a de facto school board, is largely responsible for rebuilding the region's education system, which has grown from a single schoolroom with 40 pupils in 1993 to 146 schools and 10,000 pupils. "Education is the light," said Wasuge, a father of eight. "I want to make sure young people don't miss out." He attributed his motivation to overcoming personal challenges as a child. A bout with polio at age 5 left him without use of his legs. "I've lived with a handicap myself, so I know what that's like," he said. "Lack of education is just another kind of handicap." Much of the time he gets around town on a specially built four-wheel motorbike or in a wheelchair. But often he walks on his hands, protected by a pair of well-worn sandals, using a powerful upper body to go up steps and climb into cars without assistance. Aid groups say his efforts have pushed the primary school enrollment rate to 24% in the Middle Shabelle region, which includes Jowhar. Though still relatively low, that rate is the highest in southern Somalia, where only about one in five children attends school. "He's someone who never gets tired of working for what he's committed to," said Marian Abkow, education manager in the Jowhar office of the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Somalia's school system disintegrated in 1991, when the dictatorship of Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled and the country descended into clan-based civil war. Government institutions were the first to collapse; schools were ransacked and teachers fled the country. Lack of education represents one of the country's biggest challenges as it tries to rebuild with a generation that can barely read or write. Drug addiction is high among young men, many of whom work for warlords and are paid in khat, a narcotic-like plant. Somalia has gone from one of Africa's most literate nations, with a rate of 60% in the 1970s, to one of the least, with about 25% today. "This is going to have implications for generations," Abkow said. Wasuge said he got involved in education after losing his job as an accountant for a sugar factory, which closed in 1990 amid mounting clan-related clashes. The Jowhar factory's closing left several thousand people unemployed and desperate. It was followed by a drought-related famine that killed hundreds of thousands. Wasuge and his wife lost their firstborn to disease before the boy turned 2. "I was practically begging for food," he recalled. In 1993, community leaders reopened a primary school and Wasuge found work teaching math. Over the years, he became more active in the school, eventually helping to establish the umbrella group, which organized the reopening of schools in Jowhar and surrounding villages. The group also established minimum academic standards, recruited teachers and raised money from foreign aid groups and local charities. Wasuge became a fixture in the region, sometimes going door to door to convince parents, clerics and warlords of the importance of reopening schools. "I felt the community needed me," he said. Mindful of the challenges he sometimes faced, Wasuge launched a special class for disabled students, which he taught under a tree until funding was obtained in 2000 to build a classroom. Likewise, he added adult- education classes after discovering how many adults missed the chance to attend school. "When I was young, girls were just ignored," said Fatuma Ali Abdulle, 46, who sells gasoline from plastic drums in Jowhar's main market. She complained to Wasuge that her customers were defrauding her and she was helpless to stop them because she could not read and write. "They would take 50,000 [shillings] in gas, but only write down 5,000," she recalled. Wasuge enrolled her in one of 17 primary schools that cater to people older than 18. "It was a little embarrassing at first," Abdulle said, "but now I can even figure out my profits." The school system survives today on student fees of about $1 a month. Humanitarian groups such as UNICEF provide books, teacher training and money to build new classrooms. The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, donated solar-powered radios so teachers can tune in to instructional programming. Somalian business owners and religious groups also provide funding. The only government funding in the last 16 years came four years ago when the local warlord offered to pay teacher salaries at seven schools in the region. But the warlord, Mohammed Dheere, who is now Mogadishu's mayor, raised the money in part by taxing teachers' income. Dheere, whose given name is Mohammed Omar Habeb, was ousted as a warlord last year by the Islamic Courts Union, which seized control of most of southern Somalia in June 2006. The courts, which U.S. officials accused of having links to religious extremists and terrorists, took little interest in funding or taxing schools and instead focused on the schools' curriculum and social issues, Wasuge said. On-air instruction was banned because the Islamists opposed distributing radios to young people, who might use them to listen to popular music. "They said it was forbidden under Islam," Wasuge said. Islamists also ordered that boys and girls be separated and demanded that Wasuge cancel an inter-school sports competition in which boys and girls would play together. Wasuge ignored the order and held the contest anyway, even though he wound up arrested and briefly imprisoned by Islamist leaders. "I didn't want to disappoint the kids," he said. Today his biggest challenge is Somalia's insecurity, which has displaced more than 325,000 people from Mogadishu this year. A U.N.-recognized transitional government, backed by Ethiopian troops, ousted the Islamists in December but continues to struggle against an insurgency consisting of Islamists and anti-government clans that are mounting almost daily attacks, including bombings and assassinations. Many refugees have settled around Jowhar, where Wasuge is attempting to organize classes in displacement camps. In addition, floods are destroying crops, leading aid groups to warn recently that more than 8,700 area children are malnourished and at risk of starving. It's not surprising that early enrollment figures at some schools were down when classrooms reopened in late September. Horseed Primary School in Jowhar enrolled 150 children during the first week of enrollment, compared with 318 last year. That's unacceptable to Wasuge. He has kicked into gear, launching public-awareness campaigns to boost figures. Local radio spots feature students showing off their math and reading skills. He's pushing Somalia's transitional government and the regional governor to make school attendance compulsory. He's even using Somalia's clan-based rivalries, which have been at the root of the nation's turmoil. Wasuge sometimes collects clan-based enrollment figures to create competition, warning one clan that a rival is doing a better job at educating its youths. "If it will get kids back into school," Wasuge said, "we'll try whatever we can." edmund.sanders@latimes.com Source: LA Times Link

when i'm down and frustrated feeling like knocking someone out because of this f..ken nightmare that won't end, i take a deep breath, stretch my legs ,relax close my eyes and start listening to; Yiruma- Spring time i don't know why but those serene sounds work on me lol

good news let's hope it's spend the right way and not for petty senseless wars.

Shamaarkee stop spreading fables, what was the name of the program or headline/story? "Quite a lot of things struck me about what they said," he explains, "But two things stand out. One of them was when one of the boys said: 'You see them, the older Somali guys? They're here day and night, chewing qat, they're spending the family's money, they're not with the kids, they're certainly not giving us any guidance…how on earth can we respect them? And if they dare to try and discipline us, none of us would stand for it.' "And just as I was leaving," Rageh continues, "one of the boys said something that was really powerful. He said: 'Why are we talking about this when it's ten years too late?' What about your little brothers ,sisters ,nephews nieces? it's not too late for them. Do you want to receive the same type of ''respect'' your currently giving the older generation? i hate these excuses my childhood - my childhood. There are two Somali brothers i personally know who arrived in the UK in 2002 and are now succeeding in college and god knows the attrocities and traumas they experienced as kids community leaders need to sit down with the current 12-25 age category and guide them towards goals that will enable them become successfull individuals but like i said it's quite selfish for them to give up like that when they know the younger generation will follow them wherever they are heading including 'failure'

also post the entire article not the link because i'm lazy and subconciously force my finger to press ESC everytime

website is no longer there too bad i wanted to check their songs out

^Never!!!!!!!!!!!! When the Barbarian American mameluks and puppets are out, Somalis will pour into the Capital just look at Bosaso or Hargeisa these were small towns now there cities with populations larger than Djibouti and Mogadishu had a population of -3 million there are still millions of our people there surviving the least we can do is show faith in their resilience