Salaan Carrabey

Salaan Maxamuud Xirsi, known as Salaan Carrabey, was born around 1850 in Beer, in present-day Togdheer. After Quranic school, he was a merchant between Aden, India and East Africa, and learned Arabic, English, Swahili, Hindustani and Amharic along the way, which he slipped into his verses. He took part in the Guba, the most famous of the Somali chains of poems, in which poets of rival clans exchanged biting verses, and the linguist Muuse Xaaji Ismaaciil Galaal collected many of his poems. He died in Burao in 1943.

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