Rage ugas the somali poet

[Midas]

So i was reading about this on a somali website and I couldn't believe it so I went to Wikipedia and apparently rage ugas which I used to think lived in the 1800s (19th century). Apparently actually is from the 1700s(18th century). All this time i thought we didn't have any somalj poetry from the 1700s but apparently we actually do. And he apparently lived in the early 1700s at that.

 

[Khaem]

We need to collect, write down and digitise oral tradition before the elders die out

 

[Midas]

We need to collect, write down and digitise oral tradition before the elders die out

There's actually been quite a bit of collceting done already. Most books published in somalia are connected to either poetry or dhaqan. Sadly that's about the only thing that's been done. I don't want to hate on the somali studies guys. Or on the work done on somali poetic meter.But it really bugs me how there's basically no literary criticism or anlaysis of Somali poetry even in the Somali language. Don't even get me started on the fact that nobody has done any scholarship on all the Somali folklore,geography, etc that can be found in Somali poetry.