“Upon entering a tiny recording studio in a grimy Nairobi building, Felis removes her face veil, slides headphones onto her ears and starts singing in a high voice: “Girls are raped. Warlords are to blame”.
Over a soundtrack of world music and rap, Felis Abdi and the group Waayaha Cusub, made up of some 20 young Somali refugees, crudely slam the war that has torn up their country for 16 years, almost all their lives.”
The group of young Somali exiles in Nairobi continue to gain coverage. Although controversial, it’s interesting how Somali youth from Kenya to Canada are using hip-hop as a means for communicating their anger over their war-torn country. National Geographic did a good piece on the youth of Africa embracing hip-hop as a means of expressing their political frustration.
walaal waan kusalaamy salaan kadib waan caafimaad khabaa adigana waxaan kuu rajeynaa sidaas iyo silamid ah waxaan u baahanahay inaan nokhdo fanaan mana heesto wax iga caawin karo waxaana ubaahanahay in leega caawiyo marka waxaan ubaahanahy in leega caawiyo arintaas
marka hore iga gudooma salaan walaaltinimo salaan kadib aad baan ugu faraxsanahay hadaaanu nahay dhalin yarada ku sugan dibedda waxaanu idin leenahay ku soo dhawaaadaa fananimada
thank’s a lot
I would like music by Waayah Cusub Jamila. I am a 4th and 5th grade teacher at Vivian Riddle Elementary and I have many Somali children. They would love to have some of your music and lyrics.
Please let me know if there is a radio station online that I could play for them.
Please e-mail me back. I would love to here from you.