Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil (; 1948 – May 24, 2018) was a Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.

Biography

Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil was born in 1948 in

Djibouti Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area ...

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. She lived with her family in Quartier 6,

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. At 19 years old, she went to

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in 1967, where she met with Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Hadraawi, Jama Saleban Tubeec, Mohamed Jama Ilkacase and Mohamed Said Baandey. She directed a play with Abdirahman Hassan Sheikh (Abu Dhabi), Mohamed Said Baandey, Asli Khatre Gabon and Jama Dub Dubhi, and the group started from

Baidoa Baidoa (, Somali (Af-Maxaa): , ) is the largest city of the South West State of Somalia. Between 2002 and 2014, Baidoa was the capital of the South West State. In 2014, the capital was changed to Barawa. Overview Baydhabo is the main hub of ...

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Galkayo Galkayo (, ,Dr Badal Kariye Ba Bsit Ma Mba & Phd, ''The Kaleidoscopic Lover: The Civil War in the Horn of Africa & My Itinerary for a Peaceful Lover'', (AuthorHouse: 2010), p.116. Italian: ''Gallacaio also known as Rocca Littorio'') is the third ...

Qardho Qardho (, ), also known as Gardo, is a city in the northeastern Bari region of Somalia, a district within the autonomous state of Puntland. History Until Somalia's Independence Qardho is one of a series of ancient settlements in northern Somalia. ...

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until they returned to

. She returned to Djibouti in 1975. In the 1976 poet Ibrahim Gadhle created a drama called "national struggle and misery" in which the people of

wanted independence from French colonialism.Somali Music
/ref> In 1978 she also worked with the band Gaan Maan under the leadership of the poet Aden Farah Samatar since 1971. She moved to the

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and then to the

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in the 1990s. She returned to

in 2004. On 24 May 2018, Fatima died in

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and she was buried in Djibouti on 25 May 2018.

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20th-century Djiboutian women singers 1948 births 2018 deaths People from Djibouti City {{Djibouti-bio-stub

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