Xaaji Maxamad Axmad Liibaan 'Axyaa Waddani' was a famous Somali poet. Haji Mohamed was born in Harardere district in 1904. He recorded his first poem in 1922 of a religious genre called Masafo. He would later join the

Somali Youth League The Somali Youth League (SYL, , Arabic: رابطة الشباب الصومالي, or ''Lega Somala della Gioventù''), initially known as the Somali Youth Club (SYC), was the first political party in Somalia. It played a key role in the nati ...

political party at its inception and write poems for the party to preach patriotic rhetoric for the Greater Somalia masses. For these efforts he became known as "Axyaa Waddani", "the living Patriot", for his poems having far reaching impact outside of his realm. Haji Mohamed is said to have recorded over several hundred poems captured on audio in Somali and Arabic. He died in

Mogadishu Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Ocean for millennia and has ...

in 1989.

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1904 births 1989 deaths Somalian poets People from Mudug {{Somalia-writer-stub