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Contacts and Links - Selected Somali Resources
Organisations in the London area
Organisations outside London
Restaurants/ Cafes
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Printed Resources
Black Women's Health 2003 illustration
  Audiovisual
 

Advancing in Unity
BWHAFS, 2002
Video of the international forum to strengthen action against FGM, held in Somaliland in 2001.

BBC Somali Service
BBC World Service news, information and entertainment broadcasts in Somali. See website for broadcasting details.
www.bbc.co.uk/somali/index.html

Britain My Britain nos. 2 & 4
BBC2, 2003, producer Zoe Hassid
Documentary dealing with the experiences of two Somali single fathers living in London, including the impact of khat and unemployment.

Change without Denigration
LBWHAP, 1994
Video of the international conference about FGM, held in London in 1994.

Child Safety in the Home (Somali version)
East London & the City Health Authority Community Relations and Health Promotion, 1997

The Hunger Business no. 2
Channel 4, 2000, prods. Alison Aylen, Yasmin Hai
Documentary about the international emergency aid industry in Somalia in the 1990s.

Radio Sahan London
6 - 8pm daily on 12.597 satellite
Horn of Africa community radio station broadcasting music, poetry, children's, health and educational programmes for the Somali community in London.
www.radiosahan.com

Safe in Another Country
1994, prod. Daniel Stonier
Video of refugee children's experiences, including Somalis, in north London narrated by themselves.

Silent Tears: Female Circumcision
London Black Women's Health Action Project, 1994

21st Century War: The Unseen Wars nos. 1 & 2
Channel 4, 2002, director Dollan Cannell
Sorious Somura presents the background to various current wars and conflicts, including Somalia in the 1990s.

Unreported World: The Last Haven
Channel 4, 2002, dir. Elizabeth Jones
Documentary about religious extremism in present day Somalia

Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity
BBC2, 1993, prod. Gabe Solomon
Chris Steele Perkins on the effect of the international media on famine in Somalia

Somali Lives - Culture in Exile
(Available from Arts Workshop, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London E2 6HG
Tel: (020) 7739 9001)
Video of Somalis talking about their lives, culture and contemporary experience in London, with footage of Somali dance, poetry and song.
Also, photographic exhibition on Somali social, political and cultural life available for hire from Arts Workshop.

Your Rights to Health Care (Somali version)
Tower Hamlets Health Promotion Service

 
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