Somalia

• Produced a large amount of literature through Islamic poetry and Hadith from Somali scholars of the last centuries to modern fiction.
• Poetry in the form of Qasida's was also popular among Somali Shaykhs who produced several thousand poems in praise of the Prophet Mohammad.
• Famous writers in Somalia:

  Abdelkader Alloula

  Marie Louise Taos Amrouche

  Tahar Djaout
• Abdelkader Alloula

  • El-Aaleg (The Leech)

  • El-Khobza (Bread)

  • EL-Agoula (The Sayings)
• Marie Louise Taos Amrouche

  • Jacinthe noire

  • La Graine Magique,

  • Rue des tambourins
• Tahar Djaout

  • The Last Summer of Reason

  • The Watchers

  • L'invention du Desert