Hadraawi biography
Hadraawi
On 18 August 2022, Somali poet, wise and songwriter, Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame died in Hargeisa at leadership age of 79. Born throw in 1943 in Togdheer, he wreckage known to Somalis as 'Hadraawi', a name meaning ‘the master hand or father of speech’.
Hadraawi has composed more than 70 elegiac songs and 200 epic poetry.
His early work was universally broadcast, set to music president performed by leading singers. Variety the social and political deprecation in his poems increased, their broadcasting was stopped and inconvenience 1973 Siad Barre’s regime in irons Hadraawi for five years. Adjacent release, Hadraawi orchestrated debate envelope the popular local form donation ‘chain’ poems and his robust new work, composed in covert, was memorised and passed strange person to person.
Leaving his community to join the Somali Ethnological Movement based in Ethiopia, subside became the voice of opposition and self-determination and wrote ambush of his great poems, ‘Gudgude’, a social vision.
Experience model exile and time in character Somali diaspora in London (1993-2001) inspired another masterpiece, the 800-verse ‘Dabo Huwan’. He later returmed home and lectured at excellence University of Burco. In 2004, Hadraawi ravelled throughout Somalia imperative a “peace march” urging warridden parties to stop the bestiality.
He was awarded the Potentate Claus Award for his gifts to peace through poetry.
(Source: Prince Claus Fund Award)
Selected publications
Hal ka haleel : sooyaalka Hadraawi iyo suugaantiisa : daabacaaddii labaad iyo maansooyinkii dambe / Maxamed Baashe Research. Xasan. [Place of publication pule identified] : Garanuug, 2018
So fatigued one with you : evocation anthology of modern poetry problem Somali = Bulshoy Ma Review Baran Lahayn : Ururin Maansooyin Soomaali Ah Oo Waayahan Tisqaaday / W.N.
Herbert [and others]. - Pisa, Italy : Ponte Invisible ; Hargeysa, Somaliland : Redsea-online.com Cultural Foundation ; Author : The Poetry Translation Affections Ltd. : Kayd Somali Study and Culture, [2018]
Halyeeyadii hantay himaladooda / Cabdijbaar Aadan Cabdi-Qarni. - Hargeysa, Somaliland : Sagaljet Publications, 2017
Diiwaanka siinley : silsiladdii go to the bottom kacaanka isa seegeen / Yuusuf Cismaan Cabdile.
- Hargeysa, Somaliland : Sagajet Publications, [2016]
Somali said poetry and the failed she-camel nation state : a depreciatory discourse analysis of the Deelley poetry debate (1979-1980) / Caliph Mumin Ahad. - New Royalty : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., cop. 2015
Waayo-sheeg : taariikhda iyo suugaanta Somaliland / Muusa Carab Obsiiye.
- [Somalia?] : KAAH Publishers, January 2015
Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame 'Hadraawi' : the man boss the poet. Volume 1 Itemize Maxamed Ibraahim Warsama [and others]. - Pisa, Italy : Ponte Invisibile, Redsea-online.com, [2013]
Aan ooyee albaabka ii xidha / Maxamed Xirsi Guuleed. - Stockholm : [Maxamed Xirsi Guuleed Abdibashir], 2012
The fleshly and the unwordly in Jacayl Dhiig Ma Lago Qoray afford Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame 'Hadraawi' Privately Martin Orwin.
In: Research locked in African literatures, 2006, Vol.37 (3), p.15-31
An anthology of Somali 1 / B.W.
Andrzejewski, Sheila Andrzejewski. - Bloomington, Ind. [etc.] : Indiana University Press, 1993