What is "dhoodaan"

Cabdullahi Macallin Axmed, Dhoodaan (1941 in Dollo – April 2013) was Somali Ethiopian poetry in Somali language.

A well-known Somali poet Abdullahi Moalin Ahmed “Dhoodaan” died at age of 72 in the city of Harar. He was one of the pioneers of Somali poetry and arguably the greatest poet of the last century. He was born within a family of shepherds from the Ogaden, he could not have a formal education.