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The King and the Golden Pot                                   --Nabiha Abdillahi Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a prosperous country. The king had a beautiful golden pot which he loved so much because he got it as a special gift from his mother before she died. One day, a goat inserted its head inside the pot belonging to the king, and the head became stuck in it. When the king heard that a stubborn goat had got its head stuck in his beautiful and beloved golden pot, he became very angry. Then he called all the people in his country and told them that whoever could remove the pot from the goat's head safely would be rewarded handsomely. Everyone tried, but all efforts proved abortive. Fortunately, a man who was travelling past on a journey came and  saw the people around the king's palace. He asked them what was happening there. They told him the who...

The Story of Haji Abdikarin Hussain (Waraabe)                                           --Nabiha Abidlahi Haji Abdikarin was born in 1905 in a town near Hargeisa called Toon. He was a kind man, and a good person. The story goes that a certain man had killed his father when he was very young. When he grew up to become an adult and wise enough, his uncles told him of this man who had killed his father. At this time, Somali people upheld a revenge system which permitted the killing of a person who deliberately kills someone else. When they told Abdikarin Hussain of how this man killed his father, it aroused his chagrin and he collected his guns. Together with his uncles, they traced out where the man lived and went to the place.  The journey was quite far, it took Haji Abdikarin and his uncles many days to arrive at the place. When they finally arrived at the pl...