Beschreibung
The main objective of this booklet is to help educate the Somalis in Diaspora who believe that calling someone WARYAA to get his attention is an insult, uneducated and rude. As a matter of fact, it is the identity marker of one being a Somali. It is the Somalis mother tongue. Its symbolically interchangeable with the Somali identity, Somali culture and Somali language. This booklet has been written as a result of the testimony that I had seen the withering of WARYAA from the Somali youth born or brought up in Diaspora. They are completely disconnected from their ancestral root of WARYAA. Many Somalis in Diaspora will find in this booklet many things that contradict their beliefs of WARYAA as being a respect phrase rather than a vulgar term. In reading this booklet, however, many Westernized Somali youth along with their parents will realize the mistake made by abandoning their Somali identity, and hopefully will come back and embrace it. Many of them, however, will blindly abandon it and continue to assimilate into the dominant culture, and seek a false identity.
Autorenporträt
I was born in BANGEELE, in the rural outskirts of Abudwak city, Galmudug State of Somalia circa in 1969. I hold a BA in linguistics from Switzerland, BSC in Computer Science from York University,Toronto, Canada, and MSC in Computer Information Systems from Phoenix University, Arizona,USA. Currently, I'm lecturer at Jazan University in KSA.
