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Ismaciil Mire

Ismaciil Mire is one of the most renowned and best-loved Somali poets of the early twentieth-century. As well as producing a substantial body of poetry, he spent many years as a soldier fighting the British.

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They Pounced at Dawn They Pounced at Dawn

Ismaciil Mire

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