tumblethroughmythoughts asked: God bless you for this blog! Im super nostalgic now but I love it. You showed me the Somalia I have been looking for and I want to thank you for that, truly.
Thank you. God bless you as well for your kind words. It’s easy to forget our history, identity, culture, progress, and what came before war. War not only destroys lives and countries, but it also erases people’s history and memories. I am surprised that people are surprised to see the Somalia I have shown here. Somalia’s civil war is testament to how destructive war is and how it can turn a countries recent past into vintage and antiquity. It’s remarkable how in just two decades Somalia has become truly unrecognisable for all those who lived there during it’s more prosperous and peaceful era. As countries in the rising East have themselves become unrecognisable through progress in the last 20 years, Somalia has become unrecognisable through war. It is truly sad. So much potential lost. War cannot be our only path. I pray for a better Somalia. I am glad VintageSomalia has become a place where people can remember and see things they haven’t seen before and have forgotten.
roadside #vintagesomalia
Jannaale Palms
Shabeellaha Hoose, Somalia
November 1986
Ph: Nicola Prisco
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Muqdisho, Banaadir, SO
November 1986
Ph: Nicola Prisco
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Old Portuguese Lighthouse
November 1986
Baraawe, Shabeelaha Hoose, SO
Ph: Nicola Prisco
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Mogadishu - La Guereza
November 1986
Ph: Nicola Prisco
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Buurhakaba, Bay, SO.
November 1986.
Ph: Nicola Prisco
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Photographer Nicola Prisco who was kind enough to provide me these photo’s I will share with you guys has strong ties to Somalia. Nicola’s father (Carlo Prisco), seen in the second photo (photo taken in November 1986) beside the Somalia flag was the Attorney General of the Italian Trust Company Administration (Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana) from 1957 until 1960 (when he was confirmed to fill this important office by the President of the new born Somali Democratic Republic, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar). Nicola’s father left Somalia in 1966. Nicola returned with his father in 1986. They travelled throughout Somalia and took these photos and the ones I will post.
Please respect the copyright of these photo, every use and/or diffusion of the images or part of those here portraited is subjected to his explicit authorization.
Kismayo, Somalia #presentday via AU and AU&UN
Somalia is a beautiful country with the longest coastline in the continent of Africa. The photos above are from present day Somalia except the map of course. I included the map to highlight the vast coastline. It’s shame really that for the past two decades Somalia has been hostage to conflict. So much potential and time wasted on war.
