Dialysis Crisis In Somaliland: When Poetry Becomes The Voice Of The Sick

Dialysis Crisis In Somaliland: When Poetry Becomes The Voice Of The Sick

Somaliland’s dialysis crisis has revived the role of Somali poetry as a moral voice challenging healthcare failures, political accountability and social division By Nasra Dahir Mohamed The protests of dialysis patients in Hargeisa stirred a young poet to speak, carrying forth an old Somali tradition in which verse stands as the moral conscience of society and lays bare the failings of the political class. A recent event at Hargeisa Group Hospita…