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The discovery of thousands of lost recordings from Somalia’s golden era of music is a timely reminder of the country’s remarkable hybrid sounds, writes BBC Somali’s Yasmin Ahmed.

After decades of trauma, Somalia is now going through a process of cultural and political healing. Under a national recovery plan, the National Theatre is being rebuilt,

When the Somalian civil war broke out in 1988, a few operators at Radio Hargeisa realised their building would be targeted by air strikes and took it upon themselves to remove the station’s cassette and master reel collection.