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Reflections on Hadrawi's Masterpiece Epic: Indho-Badan

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Somali literature is teeming with a valuable record of poems, traditional descriptive narrations, proverbs, and axioms detailing women's vital role in all aspects of life. In this regard, Mohamed I Warsame, alias "Hadraawi", is the most prominent Somali poet and educationist who contributed the most precious, heartfelt, and enduring literature about women without much contest.  Hadraawi, a former professor of literature at the National Somali Univerisity, a songwriter, historian, and thinker, can be deservedly appointed to be Somali women's spokesperson: the champion of their rights and the defender of their status and wellbeing in society. At any stage of their journey in life, in every situation they are passing through and with whatever experience they are having, he stood by them and took their side: dispensed priceless advice and contributed moral lessons for decent and dignified lives. He is a man who never shies away from confronting the conventional norms by