Hassan Sheikh Mumin

Hassan Sheikh Mumin

Hassan Sh Mumin was a poet, reciter and playwriter.

Life

Hassan Sheikh Mumin was born in Zeila in 1931 in the then Protectorate of British Somaliland. When he was nine years old, the family moved to Boorama , where he graduated from school and traditional Islamic school.

He fought for the independence of Somaliland, and social and political changes for a, joined the party, founded in 1943 Somali Youth League in and wrote his first published poem for a rally in Boorama the early 1950s. In dieser Zeit war er als Lehrer und Händler tätig. During this time he worked as teacher and trader. Nach der Unabhängigkeit Somalias (1960) war er 1965–1968 bei Radio Mogadischu als Dichter, Vorleser und Dramatiker angestellt, nach 1968 arbeitete er im Kulturdepartement des Bildungsministeriums und war daneben weiterhin literarisch und im Radio tätig. After independence, Somalia (1960) 1965-1968 he was at Radio Mogadishu, poet, playwright and lecturer employed as, after 1968 he worked in the Department of Education and Culture was next to continue the literary and the radio.

As 1969 Siad Barre seized power and the cultural authoritarian regime intensified its control and censorship were exposed under, leaving Hassan Sheikh Mumin Mogadishu and moved to the neighboring country of Djibouti. Later he returned to Boorama.

As his most important piece is Shabeelnaagood (1968), which with social position of women, urbanization and the changing of traditional practices and the importance of education is concerned and the only Somali play in 1974 under the title Leopard Among the Women into was translated in itself.

After his death in Oslo Sheikh Mumin was in the mausoleum of his father buried in Boorama. He was posthumously awarded the highest cultural award by the Djibouti government.

References

• The Independent: Hassan Sheikh Mumin: Poet, reciter and playwright
• Qaran News: Djibouti Government Awards Highest Cultural Medal to Hassan Sheikh Mumin posthumously