Contents: Daraadaa muxibo (Dur-Dur Band) -- Hab isii (Omar Shooli) -- Check up your head (Mukhtar R. Iidi) -- Geesiyada Halgamayow (Bakaka Band) -- Waakaa Helaa (F. Qassim & Shareero) -- Sirmaqabe (Iftin Band) -- Baayo (Mukhtar Ramadan Iidi) -- Hoobeya (Shimaali & Killer) -- Shaleedayaa ; Ladaney (Dur-Dur Band) --Godonimada jira (Bakaka Band) -- Ii ooy aniga (Iftin Band).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN MOG

Harding, Andrew.

Summary: "In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur--an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NUR HARDING

Summary: Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ESC

Salh, Shugri Said

Summary: "A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SALH, SHUGRI SAID SAL

Iftin, Abdi Nor

Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFT

Farah, Nuruddin

Summary: "A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAR

Summary: In October 1993, two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia. With the special forces pinned down at the crash sites, the 2nd Battalion 14th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division (2-14) engaged in a ferocious fight to reach the soldiers and bring them home. The infamous event is now shared in riveting detail by the troops and commanders who showed...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc Bl

Lindhout, Amanda.

Summary: "The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDHOUT, AMANDA LIN