Prominent Somali academic dies

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Kadare_660One of Somalia’s most reputed educators who advocated for empowering the Somali language has died in the Somali capital Sunday, aged 81, family said.

Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Hilowle (Kadare) , one of Somalia’s most powerful voices for literacy died at a hospital in Mogadishu after a short unspecified illness, according to his family.

Born in Adale, a farming village in Lower Shabelle region in 1934, he wrote legendary books including “Socdaalkii Sodonka Maalmood’ and “Warsame iyo Waasuge”.

Having spent a great deal of his time for promoting the impoverished nation’s artistic values, Mr. Kadare, a languages lecturer has also taught at universities in and outside Somalia.

Despite his hate to the common English-Somali mix-ups often by politicians, Mr. Kadare was proud of his tradition and culture in a country with a nation often described as Bards.

Mr. Kadare was one of the founding figures of the Somali Academy of Sciences and Arts where he serves as the Director of the Literature department until the collapse of the military regime in 1991.

He’s survived by children and wife.

 

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