Elmi Ismail Liban علمي اسماعيل ليبان The King of Romance
Born
1908
Somalia
Died
1941 (aged 33)
Berbera, Somalia
Nationality
Somali
Occupation
Poet
Elmi Boodhari (Somali: Cilmi Ismaaciil Liibaan, Arabic: علمي اسماعيل ليبان) (1908 – 1941) was a Somali poet and pioneer in the genre of Somali love poems. He is known among Somalis as the King of Romance (Boqorkii Jacaylka).[1] He was born near the border between Ethiopia and Somaliland in 1908[2] and hailed from the Eidagale sub-clan.
^Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye (2001). Moahmed Diiriye Abdulahi : Culture and Customs of Somaliland, p.76. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313313332.
^"Death by Heartbreak". EthnoTraveler Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
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