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She's everything AND more! Living up to your name.

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Thank you Huffington Post :rose: I'm so honoured. To be featured in international papers I read daily - got me feelin' some type of way. The love outweighs the hatred, or detestation. There are people who think - apparently - that my Mogadishu is only for tourists. I'm supposedly disgusting for posting a photo of an omelette n pancakes whilst people are "dying" of hunger in "Somalia." The quotations are so necessary. Some people want me to photograph the "real" Mogadishu. As if I'm in a fairy tale dawg. Like there are no elves outchea. No goblins, no gnomes, no giants, no mermaids - though the locals will tell you ravishing stories bout the gabareey maanyo (mermaid) of Liido Beach. My city is real on and off IG. Finally, there's aesthetic beauty to this page. Artistic integrity on deck. I take and post photos that appeal to me. Cause bout 99% of the time I spend on IG - I'm actually lurkin' thru my own page :D :D Images of diseased livestock, infected shrivelling bodies, starving Somali kids with flies menacingly wafting around their gaunt faces are outdated. It's 2015 and not 1991. Those images are misleading. Inadequate representation. The Africa I live in isn't suffering. And it isn't poor. Because it's not homogenous. It's been misrepresented. From time G. Actually since the Berlin Conference and the brutal colonization that followed. That's when the human character of Africans changed. And so we lost the image we had had of ourselves. Anyways. Thank you to the beautiful souls who understand this and encourage me. I love reading your comments, and I'm still indebted. Here's the article http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7110804 #AfricanVoices #BlackVoices #SomaliVoices #JiiroWacbuudhan #JW4L #viewsfromthe252 #xamar #mogadishu #somalia #africa #huffingtonpost #huffpostgram
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She is a queen. allah ha dhaafo :rose:
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Warsheekh wrote:She is a queen. allah ha dhaafo :rose:

Amiin. A thousand duco's her way. And to every young diaspora who is trying to change Somalia for the better inshaAllah!
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