Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare, a renowned author, poet and one of the inventors of the modern Somali language script, died in Mogadishu Sunday. He was 81.
Kaddare was born in Adale town in Middle Shabelle region in 1934. In the 1950s, he was credited for developing the Kaddare script, which had unique letters with lower and uppercase characters. He worked for Radio Mogadishu in the 1960s as a producer and was one of the first journalists who included sports coverage in the radio’s programmes, according to an interview he gave to the Somali cable channel, Universal TV.