Hinda Abdi Mohamoud, Chief Editor
Hinda has wanted to be a writer since she was a young child when she was given a notebook and started to write a diary.
She was born in Jigjiga, the capital of the Somali Region in Ethiopia and moved to Hargeisa when she was young. She studied international relations at New Generation university in the city.
At the age of 20 she started to write a book. It took her three years to complete.
It is called ‘Raad Somali’ or ‘Somali Footprints’ and explores the vexed question of the origins of the Somali people.
Hinda self-published the book, paying with her own money for 300 copies to be printed.
“I took the books to events and sold them,” she says. “People said I was far too young to have written a book but when they read it they praised me for doing such a good job.”
She is now writing her second book, based on the life stories of children who grow up without parents after being orphaned or abandoned.
Hinda’s curiosity and love of writing make her a natural journalist and blogger.
“People take you seriously if you are a journalist,” she says. “If you are not a journalist and you try to tell people things, they don’t listen.”