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- Fanka Ka Bixi-Maayo, Waxaanu Ku Abuuran Yahay Dhiigayga, Waanan La God-Gelayaa
- Interview with the late Abdullahi Qarshe (1994) at the Residence of Obliqe Carton in Djibouti
- "Magool: The Inimitable Nightingale of Somali Music," Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies: Vol. 14, Article 5.
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