Rap music finds a home in Somalia as its youth embrace the genre
Al JazeeraRappers say their songs resonate with the youth because they express everyday feelings and struggles; religious leaders disagree. “I don’t want to be listening to the same song my dad was listening to or songs that are the same style that mum used to listen to when she was young,” Amina Abdi Mohamed, 19-year old undergraduate, told Al Jazeera. But there should be space for everyone to listen to what they like.” The rise in the popularity of rap music has also been noticed in the country’s corridors of power. “In the last few years, rap music has been like a storm which has swept our youth,” Abdirahman Mohamed Fiili, director of marketing at Somalia’s national theatre told Al Jazeera. “There are many reasons why our people should not waste their time listening to this music,” Sheikh Abdirahim Sheikh Adan, an imam and religious scholar in Mogadishu, told Al Jazeera.
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