Hassan Sheikh Mumin

Hassan Sheikh Mumin (* 1931 in Zeila, Somalia, † 16 January, 2008 Oslo, Norway) was a Somali poet and playwright.

Life

Hassan Sheikh Mumin was born in 1931 in Zeila in the former British Somaliland protectorate. When he was nine years old, the family moved to Boorama, where he graduated Koranic school and conventional school.

He sat down on the independence of Somaliland and for social and political changes occurred in 1943, founded Party Somali Youth League and wrote his first published poem for a rally in Boorama early 1950s. During this time he worked as a teacher and trader. After the independence of Somalia (1960 ) from 1965 to 1968 he was employed by Radio Mogadishu, as a poet, narrator and playwright, after 1968 he worked in the cultural department of the Ministry of Education and was next to continue the literary and the radio worked.

As in 1969 Siad Barre took power and cultural workers were exposed under his authoritarian regime increased scrutiny and censorship, leaving Hassan Sheikh Mumin Mogadishu and moved into the neighboring country of Djibouti. Later he returned to Boorama.

As his most important piece applies Shabeelnaagood (1968), which deals with the social position of women, urbanization, and the transformation of traditional practices and the importance of education and has been translated as a single Somali theater in 1974 under the title Leopard Among the Women into English.

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

Swell

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

• Author
• Poetry
• Drama
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Somali
• Born in 1931
• Died in 2008
• Man