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The Balwo is a Somali genre of music and poetry founded by Abdi Sinimo. It features expressions of unhappy love and passion set forth in brief compositions which project striking imagery, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://africanpoems.net/relationships/balwo/

https://africanpoems.net/relationships/more-somali-balwo/

More background and history of the form and its founder can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balwo

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Dave
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