After Sada Mire returned to her homeland, she found archaeological treasures that hadn’t been seen in thousands of years. When Sada Mire was just 12, her father, a Somali police official, was executed by the country’s brutal Barre regime, which saw him as a...
PHYS.ORG – Interview with Sada Mire: ‘Grotto galleries show early Somali life’ A galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, home to Africa’s earliest known and...
I first learned to construct nomadic huts with my grandmother in the summer holidays – spent, whether I liked or not, living in Dayniile, near Mogadishu. Being a Mogadishu girl, living in a comfortable villa, I hated it at first so my father sent, as a surprise, a...
Sada’s personal story, includes a tentative explanation of the ancient Calendar she ‘cracked’ and views of the extraordinary Fardowsa archaeological site. Video Courtesy Sada Mire Back to...
Sada Mire is a Somalian archaeologist. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in Mogadishu, until 1991, when she settled in Sweden, as a result of the conflict in north-east Africa. She is founder and executive director of the Horn Heritage Organization. In the...