Mohamud Siad Togane
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Mohamud Siad Togane (born 1943) is a Canadian poet, professor, and political activist.
Born in Somalia, he was educated by Mennonite missionaries in Somalia and subsequently in the United States. He graduated from Eastern Mennonite College in 1969 where he studied literature. After teaching in Philadelphia, Togane moved to Canada in 1973 and acquired Canadian citizenship in 1978.
Togane has also written articles for various media, including The Globe and Mail, Zymergy, and African Art.
His political poems deal with various issues of Somalians and other African. Togane calls himself "Somali Muslim Mennonite Sufi", preaching an amalgam of creeds[1]
[edit] Bibliography
- The bottle and the bushman : poems of the prodigal son, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Québec : The Muses' Co., 1986. ISBN 0-919754-07-4
- Bridges: Literature Across Cultures (1994)
- Quebec Suite: Poems for and about Quebec (1995)
- Eternal Conversations (2003)
- Fifty years, fifty stories (2003)
[edit] References
- ^ "Togane Exposed", a bio from Mennonite Weekly Review Dec. 17, 2004
