Chapter IV — The Images
A visual chronicle.
A collection of images — portraits, settings and objects — that frame the man, the language and the era they inhabited.
Shire Jaamac Axmed — portrait
The Latin alphabet, adapted for Somali
Shire Jaamac Axmed — archive photograph
Mogadishu — the city where the debate was settled
The literacy campaign 1974–1975
Somali poetry, printed with Shire's alphabet
The images are a mix of archive photographs and period illustrations gathered for this archive.