News & Publications

This section collects the dated material: interviews, press coverage, and the essays written after the journeys to Somalia.

Interviews

• “Somalis Do Not Use Proverbs to Lie”: the Horn newspaper interview — 15 July 2012, Hargeisa. Recorded at the 5th Hargeisa Book Fair, where Soomaalidu Been ma Maahmaahdo was presented the day before.
• The WardheerNews interview (2006) — 25 January 2006. A biographical conversation held in Somali: the road into Somali studies, the work on the dictionary of proverbs, and the loss of the language in the diaspora. Readers sent in so many new proverbs afterwards that the dictionary had to be reopened. The Somali original.

Press

• The Guardian on the Hargeisa Book Fair — July 2012. A report on the fifth festival, with a passage devoted to Dr. Kapchits and his new book.

Somalia, 2009

In May 2009 Dr. Kapchits returned to Somalia after twenty years, as interpreter and consultant to a Russian television crew. The journey covered Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland.

• The Country of Poets and Pirates — the essay written for the Voice of Russia after the two weeks on the road: the meetings with President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and President Faroole, the pirate town of Eyl, the prison in Bosasso.

Watch and Listen

Recorded interviews, the radio work and the audio archive are on the Media & Broadcasting page.