Ibrahim Osman

Somali artist Mustafa Saeed speaks to Geeska about how his work reclaims Somali identity, blending traditional cultural elements with global pop culture to spark a broader conversation on heritage and modernity.

Yoweri Museveni’s push to ban secondhand clothes has received pushback, but does the wily old president have a point?

Art rooted in shared human experiences—suffering, hope, and fear—has the potential to serve as a powerful space for dialogue. 

Ibrahim Osman writes about how Sudanese hip-hop defined a revolution and how a revolution defined it.

Ibrahim Osman speaks to Adam Kamil, an academic and expert on the history of Islam in Ethiopia and its Muslim communities.

 yo, bust this Black to the future, back to the past, Def Jam  

Oromay tells the story of a generation of Ethiopians who sought utopia in love and socialism, only to be disillusioned by its brutality, which not only disconnected them from their traditions but also failed to offer an inspiring alternative. 

Somali music needs to find a balance between those aspects that nourish our minds and those that are intended for our bodies.  

Somali clan networks have migrated from deserts where these bonds formed in hardship to the digital realm. Clannism has also followed, giving rise to a strange new fusion between tradition and modernity.