Kaha performs "The Fourth Way" next Weds 27th October at the UoN, Education Building, rm 213, 3F from 0900-1100.
The Italian Institute of Culture posts her presentation as;
words, a song and pictures. It starts with a metaphor of the town - my home town - Mogadishu Mogadishu ’s heart, facing the Indian Ocean and acting as a bridge to the East: almost a myth, in the nostalgic words of Ibn Battuta, the Marco Polo of the Islamic world. A past made of trade and commerce, cultural exchanges, knowledge and the scent of a thousand spices from Puntland becomes the starting point toward our contemporaneity. The second way introduces a less mythical but important stage in the development of the town where it has impressed a strong mark: the colonial period, with its monuments and the signs left by the Italian 
domination. The identity of the town and the Somali people is reshaped in the confrontation with colonialism and its ways, and so we have the third way, born out of the struggle against colonialism: the way of socialism, hope and emancipation as exemplified by the deeply changed role of women. The pictures of women from the ‘70s tell a tale of projects of emancipation, cultural mélange, opening to the outside world. A popular song dating from those years reminds us of those years: male voices criticizing the new habits, and feminine voices refusing a return to the past. But the future can be a dangerous joker and presents us with a leap back in to the past. Such words as “clan”, that seemed forgotten and finished, surface back in our life and tragically mark human relationships. From dictatorship, the fourth way leads straight to a bloody war among brothers, and to destruction as a total project. Women cast off the clothes of hope and freedom and lock themselves up, covering their slender bodies as if they were trying to protect themselves from a situation of violence and unpredictable danger.
domination. The identity of the town and the Somali people is reshaped in the confrontation with colonialism and its ways, and so we have the third way, born out of the struggle against colonialism: the way of socialism, hope and emancipation as exemplified by the deeply changed role of women. The pictures of women from the ‘70s tell a tale of projects of emancipation, cultural mélange, opening to the outside world. A popular song dating from those years reminds us of those years: male voices criticizing the new habits, and feminine voices refusing a return to the past. But the future can be a dangerous joker and presents us with a leap back in to the past. Such words as “clan”, that seemed forgotten and finished, surface back in our life and tragically mark human relationships. From dictatorship, the fourth way leads straight to a bloody war among brothers, and to destruction as a total project. Women cast off the clothes of hope and freedom and lock themselves up, covering their slender bodies as if they were trying to protect themselves from a situation of violence and unpredictable danger.and a bio of Kaha Mohamed Aden as being born in Mogadishu (Somalia). She graduated in economics at University of Pavia and took her Master degree at the European School for Advanced Studies in Cooperation and Development-IUSS in Pavia (Italy).
At the moment she is involved in the field of immigration and intercultural understanding including numerous conferences, seminars and roundtables throughout Italy.
In September 2010, the first collection of her short stories, Fra-intendimenti, was published by Nottetempo, Rome.
Sounds interesting! Check it out :)
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