This page contains some hard-to-find Somali curriculum text books. The Somali language was written in 1972 and the Revolutionary government of President Mohamed Siyad Barre invested enormous time, energy and resources to formalize the Somali language, harmonize technical vocabulary and make education accessible to the Somali public in their own Somali language. As a result of this effort, Somali became one of the most developed African languages in the 1970s and 80s with students studying Somali up to the university level. However, since the fall of the central government of Somalia in 1991, the Somali language lost its momentum due to lack of any meaningful research and development.
We need your help to make this list more complete. If you find any of these texts useful or if there are other books that you may be interested in, please let us know by contacting Professor Jibril Sheikh Ali Aw Mohamed at mohamed.196@osu.edu.
SOMALI DICTIONARY:
QAAMUUSKA AF-SOOMAALIGA[1]-12d0iep
HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS
FORM ONE SOMALI TEXTBOOKS
FORM TWO SOMALI TEXTBOOKS
FORM THREE TEXTBOOKS:
FORM FOUR TEXTBOOKS:
GRADE SCHOOL BOOKS:
FIRST GRADE BOOKS:
SECOND GRADE BOOKS:
THIRD GRADE BOOKS:
FOURTH GRADE BOOKS:
FIFTH GRADE BOOKS:
SIXTH GRADE BOOKS:
SEVENTH GRADE BOOKS:
EIGHTH GRADE BOOKS:
SOMALI GRAMMAR BOOKS:
SOMALI POETRY:
Poetry of Sayid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan
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Somali Stories:
Thank you for your great effort! I would like to have form 3 and 4 chemistry textbooks.
Thank you for making these resources available.
mala heli karaa 10 ka maado ee laga dhigo iskuulaadka muqdisho iyakoo diyaarsan fadlan warbixn ayaan idiinka sugaayaa mahadsanidiin
Thanks, these documents will invaluable to me and Somalis
Thanks more and more for your struggle collection knowledge program education and the advancing somali curriculum education for different grades and levels
Thanks more and more for struggling and collection previous Somalia curriculum education for the new generation
Omg it’s amazing I haven’t never thought that I can get scientific subjects written as Somali language thank you mr professor my Allah reward you for your efforts ❤️❤️❤️
mahadsanid
Excellent resources, has lots of sentimental value as a Somali teacher who contributed and used these resources.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Mahadsanid Prof. Jibriil.
Good I like it
Congratulations for those who did this great job
Thanks more
Continue you sprit
Wonderful work Jibril!
JIbril and OSU’s African American and African Studies Department has done wonders in archiving such a rich collection of Somali curriculum material. Af Somali still remains one of the top three most developed African languages.
The Af Somali literacy campaign in the 1970s and subsequent developed curriculum saved and printed material dating back to more than 240 years. Famous poems and stories in the primary and high school text books published in 1970s contain historical events, poems, stories and other content from mid eighth century contemporary Somali culture.
NEW CURRICULUM 46 YEARS LATER
I am pleased to share with you that today June 11th, 2018, after nearly 28 years of fractured and competing curriculum and education systems across different regions in Somalia, and without an enforceable national curriculum for primary and secondary education in Somalia, new comprehensive curriculum is being launched in Mogadishu for primary and high schools in Somalia.
Curriculum Development Office/Dept. from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MoECHE) has worked hard in the last two years and is finally giving Somalia a new national curriculum.
Indications are, in the next 2 or 3 years, there will be harmonized national graduation exams for primary and secondary education from Hargaisa to Kismayo.
Masha allah hormar wacan walaaloyal wad ku mahadsantihen howsha aad qabaten hore usocda hormar wacan marwalbo wan idin garab tagan nahay anaka neh you guys did well mashallah love you all somalians.
aad iyo aad baa umahadsan tihiin dadalka hàgar la’anta ee aad mujiseen illahay ha idinka abaalmariyo
i am very much excited to have these books. i will get a chance to student again as because my median of instruction was different from my native language.
it is my turn to primary and secondary student in the coming years.
not only study but since i have graduated from faculty of education and am a teacher i hope i will use the correct science terminology when translating foreign languages to my the somali language.
many thanks again to everyone who took part this beautiful innovation.
I see that the books are well persevere
are they published if yes how can I get some. If not let me know
As person who would like to improve like reading skills in somali and as mostly self-taught person this would not only help learn but it would fill one of my passions to learn somali fully and probably. ,
Waad ku mahadsantihiin kayd kaan qiimaha badan eed nala wadaagteen.
Waa aqoon loo baahnaa. Waan ka faa’iidaysanaynaa.
Aad ayaad u mahadsandihiin
السلام عليكم ورحمة اللة وبركاته
Ignorance is decease which is spreads as fast as wind, and knowledge cures it.
This hard work will enable us InshaAllaah to strengthen our existence in East Africa and the rest of the world, but let us not forget we are only transit in this world and our destination is here after and indeed needs preparation, also it needs provision which is entirely for Allaah.
One word in your hard work which is against our religion can nullify your work so please careful .
Hassan M Ali
London UK
السلام عليكم
MAASHALLAH WAA CHANNEL WANAAGSAN
Thank you
This is great and commendable work. Honours goes to the people who didcated their efforts to collections.
These is commendable work, thanks to the people who dedicated their time and efforts