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This is the Wodaabe people, a nomadic people belonging to the Fulani ethnic group. These men are trying to look as beautiful (see: makeup) as possible so that a woman can pick them to be her partner. Faces being pulled here are to make their noses look longer, eyes bigger.
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Top five worst nights. No exaggeration
2 hours until the exit poll and I’m still thinking about how this broke my heart
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In honour of
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being back in labour shadow cabinet, here’s my favourite video of him:
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When US government is paying for war vs when it's paying for healthcare.
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Beyond that though, these ceremonies are super important cos they’re an important opportunity for many different tribes and families to socialise after the dry season. Life in the Sahel is more and more difficult. And these people deserve to enjoy themselves. Leave them be ffs.
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My 9yo nephew just told me about how his school has a “friendship bench”. If you’re feeling lonely, you go and sit on the friendship bench, and other kids come and say hi 🥺.
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Was just chatting to my mum and she randomly said that the proudest moment of her life was when they were dropping me off at oxford uni, and the staff said “welcome Mr Jama” 😭. This picture was taken that day. Look how happy hooyo and aabo look.
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Why they wrap this baby in a sabaayad
Rare image d'un bébé breton dans sa crêpe de naissance
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Somali lullabies be like hobeeyoy hobeeyo your mum vanished she will not return she is dead in a ditch
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No joke but their last Chief Finance Officer was called Peter Foot and he was recently replaced by a Mr Terry Boot. You can’t tell me this company isn’t fake.
someone needs to do an investigation on Shoe Zone bcos there’s no way they’re surviving all this
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announcement!!: I've been working with Somali teachers and linguists over the past year or so to create a somali learning tool. we're still very much in beta and so would love your support and feedback.
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Predicted grades are racist. BME kids stand to lose most by GCSEs and A Levels getting cancelled.
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When Londoners say that Croydon is another country, this is what they mean:
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Just found out that a Somali guy leads taraweeh at the only mosque in Cuba.
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This past decade, I graduated from oxford uni, had 3 different careers, self taught programming, did a masters at UCL, learnt enough muay thai to hurt someone, quit my job to work on my start up after raising a substantial amount of money. Alhamdulilah for it all.
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A white scientist made up the lie that MSG is dangerous as a prank, and it caught like wildfire. He wrote to a medical publication pretending to be a Chinese doctor who gets tired after eating Chinese food. No peer review, just vibes.
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fear of being perceived is clearly not something Somalis have a problem with
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11 year old me going on Hiiraan dot com and hooking my parents up with that good good bbc somali radio:
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This you?
George Floyd must not become just another name. His shocking death should be the catalyst for change.
To build a better society we must stand together against racism and injustice.
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Join me live tomorrow on clubhouse with @ someone who is not an expert and @ someone who is definitely not an expert to discuss an extremely sensitive topic that requires expertise and tact.
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Me coming to terms with the fact that Somali doesn’t have a word for “please”.
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mandem will pray twice at the local salafi mosque and bam, the way they speak changes. they'll go from straight slang to saying shit like:
"it is that road which you was upon, the straight path of London Road that you must take to get the station of the tube which is the train".
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Finding it difficult to see this story as a happy one. From the little I could find about him, his mum was Somali. Father was an officer in the Italian army. He & his sister were taken by their father to be raised in Italy. Unclear if their mum saw them again.
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Somali is such a fascinating language.
It has:
"Dhiiqo" and "dhooqo"
"Diif" and "duuf"
"Buubay" and "biibay"
"Somaliland" and "ma jirto"
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This is disgusting. They’re talking about changing it to 23k. The generation that paid 9k is truly fucked.
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Let’s have some comfort in the fact that this will most likely not work. No amount of KYC checks will ensure people don’t run away with the money. Only reason this works in real life is that it leverages social connections/obligations.
They turned hagbad into a startup idea and secured funding. I’d have expected the first to market to be a Somali but nah 😂
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Sometimes I wanna feel sorry for Theresa May and then I remember that she deported 7000 student using fraudulent data. She also used the same data to revoke the visa of 35k international students.
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Whats your type? part 5 (I imagine a lot of you girls feel like this loool)
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i looked up his wife and yes.
"Yes, I went to Eton," says Tory MP Bim Afolami, "I reject the idea that if you are black or you are non-white then there are certain places you are not able to go"
Labour's Tulip Siddiq says "we had different advantages... it's not the same for everyone"
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I can’t wait to reach my final form as a somali man and go after a political position I’m absolutely underqualified for.
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i sleep easy at night knowing that i spoke up every time someone was called somalian.
it's somali, i said.
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My sister is opening the first traditional Somali restaurant in London. It'll serve traditional Somali food and nothing else! 👏👏👏👏👏
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Somali twitter realising a somali word comes from Italian
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Just handed in my notice to work on my own thing. Leaving behind stability and a good salary. I feel sick and nervous. But we move.
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Less than a week ago, a 22-year old who i knew from ends and wallahi when I tell you THE most miskiin &safest guy ever, got stabbed. He died some hours later. That was in Sheffield. This is in London. I hear similar stories about Toronto, Minnesota, etc. Maxaa xal ah???
Teenager shot dead in Walthamstow formally identified
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that eid money gotta come with explicit instructions:
'qarso. qof ha u sheegin'
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I can’t believe a nation that doesn’t have a word for hurguf in its language managed to conquer the entire world. Make it make sense.
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Just heard a somali candidate for congress say “America is freedom”. Ilaahawo ceebteena astur.
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Being an immigrant is fucking difficult. For most of us, our parents arrived with nothing. They left their belongings, everyone they knew behind. But also, their networks. People theyd go to with questions. A system they knew and understood.
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I told my mum about one study where they found that exercising physically makes your brain younger. She called me earlier to tell me she has been going on two walks a day 😭
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Weed turns minds to mush. I know too many man that went from being gifted and talented at school to being unable to hold down a simple conversation. If you're from ends, you know EXACTLY who I'm talking about.
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Walijokes is training to be a doctor. I for one think that he will make an excellent psychiatrist 😆
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Definitely weed. Cos khat its like vegetable but it gives you lil bit buzz
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Guy who LITERALLY wrote Javascript (Brendan Eich) says: "The biggest challenges in life do not have technical fixes so it's important to study history, literature, art, and other kinds of human knowledge than anything to do with computers."
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The average reading age in this country is 9 years old. Having slides that have lots of complicated words on them is evil.
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Best part about travelling is having deep conversations with complete strangers and being okay with parting ways without even exchanging contact details. It was a moment and it happened. Only proof: my memories.
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Somali definition of love is maxaad ii qabataa. Utility is the ultimate expression of love.
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Come learn Arabic with me. Class size: 3-4. Location: Zoom. Beginners and intermediate, main focus is speaking. Price £150 for a ten week course. Two hours per weeks. Starting in Sept. Shout me. ps. I'm really good at teaching.
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The exact thing happened to me. Graduated Oxford and thought that doors would open, and they didn’t. Felt bad for a while until I seen the most annoying girl from uni running a global charity her mum set up 🤣. That’s when I knew the game was truly rigged.
"When I graduated... I thought: 'Why aren't these doors opening for me?'"
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham tells
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This is the picture his mum gave him 😢. It reads: “to my little Georgio, so that he remembers his mum and can never forget her.” I doubt that she ever got the news of what became of her son.
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Just ran into my boy. Last time I seen him, he drove me to oxford to help me move into uni accommodation. He failed to mention that he was on the run at the time. Risked it all to help me get an education. Fantastic lad.
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i get this question a lot: how do I get into coding?
Here is a short thread for tech scene in London.
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One of the most surprising things about being at Oxford was that everyone had hobbies. Sailing, knitting, stamp collecting, kendo. KENDO?!!?! these lot were japanese sword fighting when i was watching fresh prince, simpsons, and malcolm in the middle back to back every day.
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My start up is launching on the 14th of October. Wallahi if you lot don’t support, it’s...
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what's stopping these racists from saying somali lmao. why is it always somalian?
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not sure who needs to hear this but please bro, i beg you, go do the work. you know what you need to do. just do it.
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I see Lord Sugar is in the same Whatsapp group as my mum
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Every day I come on this app and I witness my people achieving incredible things. Years of forcing tuna&beans combo and “ilmaha beegar u sameey” have made us a truly formidable people.
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Pretty sure there’s a groupchat where all the Hooyos set parenting standards 😂
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bro af somali has been live for 5 days and im being called a grifter and a liar? already?? someone has gone to great length to message everyone who retweeted me telling them im a scammer? this is so upsetting wallahi. my tweet literally said its in beta.
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Invest in your education. Focus on your craft. Put the time in. These inspirational influencers warkooda ka bax. Their hustle is selling you inspiration.
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I wanna start a book club. Anyone interested??? Monthly meet ups in London. One book a month.
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The third edition of Speech and Language Processing is here. For free. Share it with your people.
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Labiskaan maxaa ka taqaanaa? Tree hundard thousand bown doolaar aa laga soo bixiyay
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I think part of the problem is that we teach kids, particularly poor black kids, that hard work is enough. And it absolutely isn’t. And by lying to them, we’re not teaching them the sky’s the limit, we’re teaching them if they fail, it’s their fault. And it’s bullshit.
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Same. One thing I clocked when I was at Oxford was how all the rich kids were basically doing humanities subjects, and the working class kids + immigrants were all doing STEM subjects. Lowkey sad
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can't believe this was over a year ago!!! literally the best decision i've ever made. working on
@joinjamma
has been an absolute gift 😭.
alhamdulilah x 1000.
Just handed in my notice to work on my own thing. Leaving behind stability and a good salary. I feel sick and nervous. But we move.
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I was today years old when I learnt that the word for bucket in somali comes from Hindi/Urdu.
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No tea no shade but habartaa buufkeed.
No tea no shade but most Somalian people in the U.K. didn’t even want to claim Blackness till what seems like last year lol. But you’ve influenced Black British culture cos one guy said Walaahi? Pls, you’ve only just joined.
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