In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe considers how important protest music is to the Somali culture of survival. Growing up in Hargeisa, capital of the self-declared ...

Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi, a founding father of modern Somali music, died in London after contracting coronavirus at the age of 91. The BBC's Mary Harper was a friend of his. Whenever Hudeidi ...