'In my family, dried camel meat and tapes would be sent instead of letters'
By Fozia Ismail, Tuesday Feb 23, 2021 I have always been interested in the way the Somali Diaspora would send cassette tapes back and forth between Somaliland and the UK, both during the civil war and after. In my family, tapes would be sent instead of letters and when these tapes would arrive, they would often arrive with Muqalmad- dried camel meat, an important part of Somali nomadic culture. Family and friends would listen to the tapes and share the camel meat. This was a joyful but also sometimes painful experience, which reinforced a kind-of living in between landscapes. For younger memb...
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