^ in a southern rapper's voice: yo, this is your boy Alpha B and i'm sending shout outs to all the fellas and ladies. I'm a do my thing you can't stop that ... I think I've been stuck in the 'busy' period recently but shout outs to all the cantarbaqash'ers out there. p.s - Apo, i sent you a PM last night but you disabled your settings and it bounced back.

LOOL@Mooge, inaar, maa 30-kii baad fooda laga gashey? i'm in this group of people you speak off. sometimes, i feel young and sometimes old by comparison. by a western standard, i feel relatively young balse, the life expectancy here, in the nation's capital, is a mere 55 years and i've already lived half of that, ma garatay?

HARGEISA August 2013 Downtown Hargeisa

^ naga daa ciyaarta y'all. these are the cutest little cats ever. 1. 2. 3. 4. you almost want to eat them, maha?

nuune;974571 wrote: dee adaa cirka roob ku og, :D i love that maahmaah, inaar. excellent. 10/10. malaaha adna wax baad ku ogtahay Golden Rules, ma istidhi?

^^ apparently not. Lamu is now a county of it's own. it was formed on March 4th 2013. for a minute, i thought, you were talking about the same Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) aka The Lamu corridor that'll transport oil from South Sudan. good decision from Kibaki to exclude this strategic pipeline from going through the Somali NFD Region. who knows what they'll do? if ever there was an example, just see what UBBO did to the 100+ chinese workers a few years back. as for the fishing, yaa oog? for all we know it could be bantus they're fishing. reer NFD are vile.

fish farming? Haatu, Abti, since when did this poverty-stricken hell-hole have a coast? is uncle Ahmed 'Kibaki' Madoobe allowing access to Kismayo port? i have never heard the Queen's English vicariously abused like this. Af-Somaali maxaa u diiday? that Ifrah Ali, the radio presenter, would be good for a date or two, you know.

couple of HAGs posing as laan-gaab elhu naars. it's clearly obvious they're detached from reality. yaa u sheega in biyomaalku deeganyahay Merca. $4,000 for the event? pathetic! $200 for printing the tickets? WTF? these eurotrash and top-man style icons are clearly out of their comfort zone. why is Adam or Abdi having a go at the AU security officials. ileen he's more likely to blow himself up than the vagabonds of Heliwa district eh? the whole clip makes for an uncomfortable viewing and reeks of self-promotion. the sentimentalism of the narrator adds a voyeur edge to this mashruuc.

Mooge;974474 wrote: why isn't the White Cow clan united like the monkey clan? what is their beef with siilaanyo? isku xishood abti. you're a little doofar, maha? do you get a kick from qabyalada? sida waa laga ficanyahay.

Jacaylbaro;974422 wrote: HIBF were looking for some missing books this morning ... one of the security cameras caught a not-so-clear image of someone stealing some books but it is hard to identify if it is Alpha or someone else. I looked at the photos and i recognized his height & hair but to further clear about it we asked some experts to install new computer program that can clarify the photos. At least 2 people said they lost their receipts after they purchased so many books. One of them said the receipt was stolen while trying to have coffee in front of the book-hall ... Someone said he saw a person (a male) putting some books on the ground and taking pictures but was not sure where he headed after that. Police, CID and Intelligence were all informed ............ Alpha, you better run .... it is a friendly advise LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL@JB ok. i confess. but you're doing is purely inflammatory and unnecessary, ruunti. you're accusing me of theft. walahi i didnt steal these books, abti. i bought them, ma garatay? why are you saying these terrible things? this may have serious problems for our medium to long term cordial relations.

it maybe the only time the SMs meet. this is indeed a historic munaasabad. LANDER, as the official SOL correspondent for SM affairs. i wonder, if you'd be able to answer a couple of questions re this meeting. 1. are you able to share the official communique of the shir? 2. what, if any, habmaamus arrangements have been extended to beelaha kaale of SL? 3. will the government be allowed to part-take in an official 'observer' capacity? 4. how will this shir improve long standing internal issues of the SM tribes?

Tallaabo;974359 wrote: He borrowed the books for ten minutes, spread them on a carpet, and put a note on it ee sidaa ula soco:p you're pathetic.

nuune;974313 wrote: ^^ How do I know you didn't steal them, you do actually know that receipts can be photoshopped online, so I don't buy what you are saying there or screenshots. ee sida ula soco ibriiqyahow abti, i stole a few hearts, too, inaar. they were so many good looking qurbo chicks hanging around the HIBF. it's a shame i didn't attend much earlier. i actually found an excellent baraf-jibis/ice-breakers moments with these chicks, ma garatay? i managed to get a few numbers. one of them, i'm sure quite, I'll link soon. i've already text her but she didn't reply back. anyway, she was all over me, ma garatay? she insisted that i take her number, so why didn't she text back. sida waa laga ficanyahay, you know.

*Ibtisam;974325 wrote: Tonight is the closing event at Ambassador 7pm; I'll be on the panel with some Ministers and doctors discussing Sexual Violence in Somaliland: Causes, Consequences & Solutions . i see your attention seeking antics have reached new heights. can you please explain sexual violence, adigoo mudane. *Ibtisam;974325 wrote: Alpha only Hadraawii hardback translated poetry is $50 and there are none hardback copies for $10. All other books at HIBF are $10 or less as you well know. Stop catching breezy inaar! and you only spent $220, stop with all the noise $2000 ku laha! Interesting people living with "white yad yad ya" can actually have the audacity to say anything here! baccccca the lot of you. Nuune walahi many of the books were quoted as $50 to me. whether this had something to do with my slight out of town ciyaal qurbo looks or whether they were actually $50 i cannot confirm. but they were $50. LOOOOOOOOL@$220. please go back to east london and check your eyes for cataracts. i didnt say $2000 either. i spent less than $200.

Juxa;974305 wrote: Warheedhe it is money well spent. lets hope so, inaar.

Jacaylbaro;974292 wrote: I am opening a center where i can keep the "good for nothing" people so that they don't infect others ....... HIBF proved to be one of the success stories in the world ......... at least for now JBoooooow, inaar waxaad tahay laan-gaab elhu naar bila xishood ah, you know. abti, it's not my fault you're a laan-gaab ehlu naar and the books were ridiculously expensive. so much for the HIBF being successful, ma istidhi? these books ought to have been subsided and made available for the people to purchase. when i establish my library, the people will pay only $15 for registration fees and a further $5 for administration related costs and......... they'll access the library - even borrowing for a month but they'll be penalised for late returns . not to mention freely accessing (subject to circumstances) the services at Xikmad Maal Public Library and Community Resource Centre without the stiff-upper lipnimo and the disgusting elitism that the HIBF oozes. :mad:;)

Alpha Blondy;974240 wrote: i'm going there in like 6hrs, abti. i'll spend about $300 purchasing some of this year's books for my library project, inshallah. i'll post the pics ee sida uula soco. i went early this morning and purchased books for my library project, y'all. very expensive stuff walahi. some of the books were ridiculously priced ($50+), you know. again, the HIBF has failed on the accessibility front. sida waa laga ficanyahay, ruunti.

Tallaabo;974220 wrote: Alpha the cultural historian, the social activist, literary critic, travel writer, photographer, weather forecaster, public educator, cultural custodian, news analyst, stand up comedian, female hospitality specialist, all in all pseudo-intellectual, leave HIPF alone :mad: i'm going there in like 6hrs, abti. i'll spend about $300 purchasing some of this year's books for my library project, inshallah. i'll post the pics ee sida uula soco. kulaha female hospitality specialist ;) soo dhawoow markasta iyo meel kasta inabti.

*Ibtisam;974191 wrote: Alpha- of course if you knew anything about HIBF or attended any of the launches you would not be looking like a total id*iot now- Today alone 15 locally written books were launched and presented at HIBF and even if you read the program you will see each day there is a section on locally published books. Not to mention the 5day creative writing and photography course for regional readers club. So if you didnt know, siida ula soco iminkaba inaar That aside as most of the Somali authors on list including Shiekh Dalmar, Hadraawii, Hasan Ganey, Scii Jama, Sciid Salah and so on you cannot say diddle nothing about with regards to their Somali-ness or qurbo-joog you are out of luck here. So, perhaps you should stick to your cantrabaqash thread where you can spew your nonsense without bothering the rest of us normal people. FCO published their own photos too http://www.flickr.com/photos/77567524@N02/sets/72157635140416562/ a poignant story, if you will. as a conscious cultural critic, i've often been absorbed by listening to and engaging with a variety of people from different backgrounds. this, i feel, is very important, not least because it's an opportunity to learn but also a chance to exchange ideas and to avoid the same old mistake of wholly prescribing the same solutions to differing problems, akin to and informed by a rose-tinted view of a world...... singing the same tune to Kumbaya whilst having some mashmellows by the fire camp, you know. the story the year is 1998. Ethiopia has just embraced ethnic federalism and coming to terms with this fictitious mashruuc that'll eventually take the country down a slippery path towards strife and possibly even disintegration. somewhere in the deepest darkness of southern Ethiopia, near the Omo Valley, there are various tribes with various customs and traditions....there are the kara, the mursi, the hamar and the nyangatom. in those early days, the Tiray Govt. of Meles wasn't so much concerned with internal security and repression but rather looked outwardly, appeased NGOs and the foreign interests of the faraji. anyway, an american NGO thought itself smart to intervene itself with a local land dispute between the Omo Valley tribes, no doubt, because it's the right thing to do but also because these Omo Valley tribes are not capable of resolving internal issues themselves, maha? due to the American NGO's democratic crusade and sense of purpose, particularly its desire to communicate via the senses and to create a 'festive atmosphere''..... they hired many Amharic musical celebrities ( the minew shewa sort) from the capital and paid them handsomely for their troubles. i suppose, we can't really fault their ignorance here, maha? because after all, Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia, maha? they're all Ethiopians maha? those with something of the outsider and voyeur-like tendencies about their persons are NEVER likely to recognise difference and in turn respect diversity, maha? i'm afraid not. the proceedings started. the american NGO thought the Omo Valley tribes would 'react' to these melodious beats, maha? that the omo valley tribes were devoid of reason, customs and laws, maha? that the omo valley tribes were just another tribe in the dark continent, maha? cala kuli xaal, the omo valley tribes boycotted the event. during the first day, numbers were high and curiosity ripe. in the second day, there was a sense of the anti-climatic about the whole thing. during the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th day no-one bothered to turn up. the tribes, sensing outsider interferences, convened in their communal land, where the Omo River with its meandering yet greenish silhouetted landscape, reminiscent of Regent's Canal in East London, run its course blissfully wild and resolved their warring land dispute. ma garatay? warya Ibtisam don't get your nigis in a twist over my critique, dee. it's all true, maha? SL is a democracy ee sida uula soco. caay, colaad iyo waxii aflagaada ah waa laga wanaagsanyahay dhamaan. mida labaadan dhamaan waan jacelnahay wadankeena ,heesteena calanka iyo HIBF (without the Qurbo-Joogian Romanticist mindset spurred on by it’s white imperial masters) ee isku xishood inabti. waa kuu sidee?

^ i don't usually go to Qurbo-Joogian romanticist type events.

the arts should be accessible to all not just a few expats, NGO workers and elite Qurbo-joogians. Somaliland literature has for far too long been championed by Qurbo-Joogian apologists, whose chronic paternalism has not only completely alienated readers but neutered and emasculated Somaliland based authors. HIBF works with a patronising ‘internationalist’ foggy tokenism, promoting international authors or Qurbo-Joogian authors, whose musings and civilising mission undertones lack context or indeed relevance to the realities on the ground, to the detriment of Somaliland based authors. conscious cultural critics like myself value grass-roots, organically inspired cultural products, products grounded in real life experiences and not some pre-judged culturally distant stereotype informed by the overarching Qurbo-Joogian romanticist mindset. this mindset not only hijacks Somaliland cultural and literary products for its own ends but more significantly constructs a condescending, cultural straight jacket and stereotypical concoctions to self-aggrandising audiences. this dominant milieu or the prevailing Qurbo-Joogian romanticist mindset is the dominant ideology that inhibits Somaliland-based literature from the mainstream, at least here in the nation's capital. what i'm proposing here, in my capacity as a conscious cultural critic, is a 'back to basics' approach, bringing alternative and seldom documented experiences into the cultural mainstream; with the intention of shining a light with the aim of uncovering, and authentically documenting, hard to reach cultures and sub-cultures that exist in the Somali-speaking world and in particular Somaliland. these voices should be organically sourced from their own communities (instead of being white, English speaking, off a Qurbo-Joogian romanticist mindset), given the tools and the encouragement to write books based on their experiences and values rather than having a romanticist Qurbo-Joogian ethno-centric culturally biased world-view forced upon them. the most important point is to realise that this romanticist Qurbo-Joogian ethno-centric culturally abusive milieu is the number one impediment to Somaliland authors and readers alike.

welcome back Narniah.

Jacaylbaro;974048 wrote: I am perfectly save on SOL ..... smple coz I am me do you mean you're less loox-like on SOL then you are in real life?

Coofle;974003 wrote: Alpha why do you have to fear to be exposed? are you involved in terrorist activity? *Terrorist* that is the only thing people scared of these days, Just avoid it and do what else and nobody cares. abti, do i look like a terrorist to you? i'm a salafist, ma garatay? our religion is peaceful, well most of the times :cool:. i'm fearful because i received some credible information about certain folks on SOL bringing online social drama to the public sphere. this is UNACCEPTABLE. inaar, as you'll no doubt be aware, i want to be a politician and i usually writing all sorts of nonsense on this site but what happens on SOL must stay on SOL, maha? it's disgusting and quite frankly vile to use my own ridiculous posts against me. anyway, i've denied these heinous allegations against my person. of course, such vile defamation and what can only be described as premeditated evil intentions against Al, have seriously tested my confidence on this site balse i'm in the least bit interested about their shameful attempts to mock, ridicule and make slurs against person. i reckon, this was the same reason why the legendary Abwaan quit SOL but yet continues to browse with a somewhat interrogative manner. i havent decided what course of action i'll take but i hope it never happens again. i'm obviously hurt and terribly disappointed by these exposes balse kheyr and victory will be mine. it's not the first time i have been qarxised on this site. this has for the most part been spurred on by ciyaal-like innocence but i'm not like that in the real world. i reckon, it probably won't be the last time, but i don't care. waa siday tahay.