Somali Love Songs: A Hip Deep Introduction - Video
PUBLISHED: Mar 29, 2014
DESCRIPTION: Wellesley College historian Lidwien Kapteijns gives a charming, whirlwind tour of Somalia's early days, and the way poetry and love songs played a key role in building a national identity for a state that never quite arrived. This video is a companion to the Afropop Worldwide program, "Reconstructing Somalia: Love Songs at the Birth of a Nation."