I believe that our practical cultural heritage helped us survive the war, even though we were city dwellers. When the war broke out in Somalia, we ha… - Sada Mire
" "I believe that our practical cultural heritage helped us survive the war, even though we were city dwellers. When the war broke out in Somalia, we had to flee. We found ourselves in the desert with nothing. Only through our innate skills did we know how to find water sources, how to make tools from materials found in the field, how to build a house from acacia trees and where to find healing herbs.
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About Sada Mire
Sada Mire (born July 1976) (Somali: Sacda Mire, Arabic: سعدة ميرة) is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter from the Arap clan, who is currently a professor of Heritage Studies at University College London.
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