Where ICT (Information and Communication Technology) meets Poetry.

The nation of Somaliland have unique culture where poetry is used to express  almost every sphere of life, including ICT  yes ICT.  Please read below. To remind our readers Somaliland has been nicknamed the Internet Nation simply put the Diaspora is has helped Somaliland develop by using the internet as it's main tool of development:

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From Yusuf Xiito:

Poetry once played the role of the media; it was a popular tool for discussion and critical analysis of political, philosophical, economical and social issues.
That role has since been taken by other media sectors and the poets have gone without the least recognition.

Yuusuf Xiito illustrated his point with a poem, an excerpt of which follows:

For the society news is like food,
Yes, it is the media that should stand
for clarity,
Media is the source of unexpected
knowledge,
Unexaggerated and not fake,
When it has no place for a lie,
Then prosperity is within the reach,
Oh! That is beauty by fidelity,
A sign of peace,
A means to prosperity,
An item of news that for a time sooths,
And a family/clan of peace,
Makes hope for a good news,
And yet promise and memory,
Do not loose their place,
Nor is nostalgia forsaken,
And at times longing for the good old
days,
On top of the mountains,
On the waters of the rivers and sea,
And in all over the world,
From the east to the west,
In Latin America and Europe,
Where knowledge and education is a
priority,
And where the first pages of the
newspapers,
And in the world of the Internet,
Where countries are interconnected,
Yes amazed you will be,
In this audio-visual world,
After all it is a world that feeds the
public.

Conversely, the following adage reveals the nomad’s aversion to uncertainty:

Lack of news begets worry,
Loneliness makes the road longer,
And unfamiliarity with the land makes you cautious.

The above poems ares taken from the PDF file below:.

The Role Of The Media In PoliticalReconstruction
Academy for Peace and Development, Hargeysa, Somaliland
July 2002(PDF).