Who would shoot a 10-part TV sequence in a metropolis rising from a 30-year battle with a solid of youngsters who’ve by no means acted earlier than? The reply is Ahmed Farah. He’s the director of Arday or “Scholar”, which was filmed within the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and launches on Thursday on the nation’s Bile TV channel. It grapples with a number of the nation’s most controversial points, together with pornography, rape, medicine and woman gangsters – all taboo matters in Somalia. Every 25-minute episode focuses on a bunch of high-school college students and the way they cope with the difficult world they’re rising up in. Like elsewhere on this planet, the sharing of movies of girls being sexually abused is a rising drawback in Somalia. Arday’s not insubstantial price range was completely funded by Somalis. Whereas members of the older era had been appalled by the themes, some younger individuals in Mogadishu mentioned it was vital the sequence addressed difficult matters.
SOURCE: BBC
