Maxishoodaha flying to his masters. Nothing new. Waala soo sabsabaa, madaxa loo soo salaaxaa. Nothing will change.

The true 'secessionists' maanta ayaa la arkaa. Dadkii hoosguntidii dhigtay bilaa xishood, dalkiina rabo inay kala gooyaan, shisheeyana u adeego. Not surprised, though. Xishoodka looma dhasho, waa dhaqan.

D.O.C;954815 wrote: This is embarrassing for Somali government, don't these ministers know who to meet when they came to a country? This defence minister is meeting with soldiers not his counterpart, does he not know that? It says more about your ignorance than anything. He is MEETING his counterpart, the the defence minister of Suudaan, Mudane C/raxiin Maxamed Xuseen

Where did Keynaan get the script from? From our own SOLer who penned it a decade ago.

Meeshii mirifka iyo dhoobada badneyd maa joogtaa horta? Islii ka wadaayee. Ar habeen wacan, waa seexday.

Dameerkii aroortii maalinta xigtay qosol ka dhamaan waaye miyaa adiga sheekadaada. Maxaa ku qoslee markii la yiri, sheekadii xalay daanyeerka sheegaaye hadda fahmay yiri. Duurjoogtada kale markee wada qoslaayeen habeenkii lasoo dhaafay asaga ma qoslin maadaama uu sheekada fahmin.

Wuxuuba ugu wici doonaa 'Maano Caddeey.' That is the full name of protagonist when the film comes out.

Darn, he stole the title of my future book, maanokoobiyo, about crazy qurbojoogto. N.B. - To those who are not familiar the meaning of 'maanokoobiyo' -- it was the famous name of mental hospital in prewar Xamar.

K'naan tries his hand at filmmaking with Sundance workshop Script about orphan who joins a mercenary squad while searching for his sister Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan has long drawn musical inspiration from his troubled homeland. Now he says he's ready to make a film about his war-torn roots. The Toronto-bred poet, rapper, singer and songwriter has penned a screenplay he hopes to direct and shoot in Somalia, about an artistic orphan named Maano who joins a mercenary killing squad. K'naan says he's excited to fine-tune the script and develop his director's vision on Monday, when he begins a month-long stint at the Sundance Institute's annual directors and screenwriters labs in Utah. "I'm so curious, that's what it is, more than anything else," K'naan said in a recent interview from Los Angeles, where he was working on a new album. "I'm really genuinely sleepless from curiosity. I don't know how that all comes together and I'm like that about music also — I get obsessive over work, over the idea of a song or the feeling of a song or something I have to do when I get to the studio. But I always wonder how what's in my head, the song in my head, and now in this case the film in my head, will look like." K'naan's script Maanokoobiyo , is among 13 projects that have been chosen to take part in the prestigious workshop, where creative advisers will include institute president and founder Robert Redford, The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow, actor Ed Harris, No director Pablo Larrain, The Motorcycle Diaries scribe Jose Rivera, Argo writer Chris Terrio and actress Alfre Woodard. But despite the huge vote of confidence in his point of view, K'naan says he's not so much interested in becoming a filmmaker as he is simply driven to express himself in the best way possible. "It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know," says K'naan, who spent his childhood in Mogadishu and was on one of the last commercial flights out of the country before its collapse. "I'm interested in telling this story in particular through a visual medium. So if the story was best suited for a book I would probably would have been sitting down and writing a book. And if it was for a song, that's what it would have been. But there are certain stories that are best suited for a visual medium and so it's not that I would like to be a filmmaker, it's just that I have a film to make." Story drawn from real people, own story As part of the directors lab, K'naan will work with professional actors and production crews to shoot and edit key scenes from his screenplay. Other emerging filmmakers attending the labs come from the United States, Europe, Mexico and Peru. The Wavin' Flag rapper, who now lives in New York, says his tale is inspired by real people, with the central character — 21-year-old Maano — sharing more than a few traits with himself. "He's got a lot of me [in him] and his sister is really based on someone that I love and have been very, very close to all my childhood who recently passed away," says K'naan, who also attended the Sundance Institute's five-day screenwriter's lab in January, which he calls "life-changing." "The film opens as Maano is learning that he has one last family member remaining that's alive. He has a sister that's alive and on the other side of the country and it's just how it changes him in the process of searching for his sister, how finding such news, what that does to someone's soul." Onscreen appearance unlikely While he's committed to directing his own script, K'naan says he doesn't expect to also appear in the movie. "I just feel like it would be too much to take on writing the film and then assembling a cast, and directing it and probably making music for it," he says. "I don't want to diminish the work by doing too much. So that's a part of the concern but in this process I've had ... do acting scenes and monologues off of the film for people who are advisers and friends who are around and they just go: 'It's so obvious you have to act in it.' But I genuinely don't have the ambition to act." K'naan says he'd love to actually shoot the film in Somalia, suggesting the region appears to be stabilizing somewhat. "It's really changing. The country is having its first rebirth and turnaround now ... economically and governmentally it's really incredible," he says. "It's a lot to hope for — for Somalia to be safe and stable for good — but that's the dream and that's what people are working for and if that happens I'd love to shoot there." The Sundance labs begin Monday and run through June 27. CBC

I used to read and hear 'Ford Nation.' I used to imagine a fat, lonely white men who lived on the fringes of Etobicoke and Scarborough were the core of this 'nation.' Never I thought a Soomaali was one of them.

There is so many ways to serve dalkeena. Dad badan ayaa aqaanaa, doing their own little 'servings' to our country in Xamar.

Yes, after what happened to their late aabo, they would be the last people to carry guns in Xamar. Wax kale ay ka shaqeystaan mee Xamar ka waayeen. Eniwey, all the best Rabi ugu rajeynaa. I know when the heat gets hot...

So no 'deranged, demented, crazed' individuals yet. Kii ra'iisul wasaaraha ahaa iigu daranba. His favourite 't' word lasoo boodayba because he thinks they are dad Muslim ah.

Che, almost lix sano ayaa dambeysaa nooh. By the way, Muqdisho is historically older than the existence years of Nayroobi, Kambaala,Darasalaam, Kigaali, Bujumbura and Adisababa -- their combined years of existence. All those named cities are less than 150 years old each, most being founded in 19th century or early 20th century by the colonials.

When is he going to fly with Kiinyaati tanks in tow to Baardheere, Luuq, Ceelwaaq, Saakoow, Bu'aale, Jamaame, Jilib...?

Dad ayaa hoosgundidii dhigtay, xishoodkiina ka tagay in the name of bililiqo iyo sandalusnimo dhul iyo meel aynan u dhalan. Iyagoo waliba meel gaarin. The new xaaraankunaax. Xoosh ayaa waday axdigaan aad taageeri jirteen, haddana lagu tumanaayo, la jibinaayo qodobadiisa.

Some Soomaali dude in Nayroobi made a serious money in this toobin business, islaamo saf u galaaye ka kala yimid Yurub, Ostaraaliya, Kanada iyo Mareykanka. He charged $500 minimum per patient. That is very cheap for islaamo kusoo daalay daawoyinkii Reer Galbeedka and who sought anything to relieve their many ailments. They really believed him, believing inuu daaweeye. He also had other 'traditional' qalab, hybrid-modern iyagoo ah some of them.

Lama soo moodin, only dadkii awooda weynaa ayaa guuleystay. Some Calibeesteenka resisted valiantly against the then illegal immigrants, though their tribal division, the illegal immigrants political tricks, modern weapons they had and the illegal immigrants' diseases that they brought along took its toll, decapitating the native resistance. Kanada awoowgey iima laha and I welcome every immigrant to this land, legal or whatnot. Ha wada imaadaan. Here, 'illegal' immigrants waa joogaan laakiin lama daba soc socdo, wey iska shaqeystaan caadi iyagoo ah, even paying canshuurta.

Yaaku martiqaaday dhulkaan dadkii dabada caddaa ee loogu wacaaye Columbus, Cabot, Cabral, Amerigo iyo xirtii kale hiirarka u yimid. Iyagaa iskeenay soo ma'aha. Marka xaq ayee u leeyihiin dadkii u dhashay dhulkaan inay imaadaan dhulkooda maanta, meel walba ay tahayba. Teeda kale, a whole junk of Southwestern Mareykanka awalba Meksiko laga dhacay.

oba hiloowlow;951945 wrote: Finally, finally!!! Waa sawir aad ii qanciye. Dayactir ayaa ku socotay markaa Xamar joogay. Barxadii Ceelgaab iyadana waxaa laga dhisaaye barxad iyo beer weyn oo dadweynaha ah oo loogu magacdaray Beertii Nabadda. Aad u qurxooneyd. Jir oo dhisnoo Daljirka Dahsoon, magac qurxoonaa.

Aad ugu mahadsanyihiin walaalaheena Turkiga, laakiin: Tabeelaha Afsoomaali ha lagu qoro. Waxaan kale rajeynaa barbaarta agoonta iyo rajada dhabta ah inay helaan waxbarashadaas. Soomaali waa isnaqaanaa, wax isdabamaris waaku dheereynaa iyo masuqmaasuqnimo. Carruur aabayaashooda soo taagan oo shaqeysto meeshaas in la geeyo ka cabsanaa. Turkiga ha iska ilaaliso sirtaas, yeynan sirmin.

tutu;951504 wrote: Its like that sijui guy (probably Haatu) who was asked in his home office interview how long the train takes from Mogadishu to Hargeisa. He said '''wallahi am not sure as I've never been on that train, but I think 4 or 5 hours'. His rejection was instant, didn't need any further scrutiny. Tan waxee i soo xasuusisay waagaa Kanada iska dhiibaaye. In here, they have 'hearings' within a year presided by a nominal judge. Nin fiican oo Muslim ah igu soo aaday, though he asked me weirdest questions. Mid ka mid ah su'aalaha waxee ahayd inaa ku heesi karo heesihii Kacaanka iskoolada lagu qaadi jiray. I don't know meeshuu kusoo maqlay, but I went: Guulwadoow, Siyaad Aabihii garashada Geygayagoow Hantiwadaaga waa Habka barwaaqo noo horseedayee... Qaaliga was like enough, enough. His next question was if I can name any of the Soomaali names for the seasons. Gu', jilaal markaa maraayo haddana enough yiri. No more questions yiri and will make a decision in half an hour. Wuu baxay. Rest is history.

Butacaan magaaladeena Koronto waa naga ceebeeye. He is a magnet all things controversial, asagaa isku keeno. He acts and behaves like he was a mayor of a small conservative town. I met him a year ago, of all places, at a McDonald on Kipling Avenue that I took my nieces. Apparently, I later learned, it is his favourite joint. He handed me his famous "personal home phone number" card. Straight to qashinka ku daray. My favourite paper, Toronto Star's jihaad against him is understandable, though. Their tireless jihaad against him almost resulted his removal from mayoralty office -- until a higher court overturned the conviction. Keep it until this shuluq is removed.

Madoobe, the self-proclaimed 'president' of Jubbada Hoose, won't last. Oh, no, qof runta isku sheegaayo ma aaminaayo taas. Why? Simple, the same way Caydiid, Cumar Jees, Moorgan, Hiiraale failed before him. They were warlords. He is a warlord, a pseudo one waliba. Some of his qabqable predecessors didn't have foreign tanks and were a lot of more powerful than he is, ruled a considerable more lands than he claims to rule. They were made to be dustbin of history. He will soon follow them. Another reason he will fail: He doesn't (or rather Kiinyaati tanks don't) control those considerable degmooyin he now claims to preside: Luuq, Ceelwaaq, Baardheere, Bu'aale, Saakoow, Salagle, Jilib, Jamaame. Reer Jubbooyinka dagaal waaka daaleen, fadlan dhiig dambe daado ka dhaafa.