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LIVE — Mogadishu summit on regional tradeDOCUMENTARY — The lost libraries of Zeila premieres FridayINTERVIEW — Diaspora entrepreneurs reshape East African logisticsANALYSIS — Inside the new Somali tech corridorCULTURE — Oral historians race to preserve clan poetryBUSINESS — Hargeisa coffee exporters break records
About Takar Media

A Somali-owned media company telling stories that matter.

Takar Media exists to record, archive, and broadcast Somali life in long form — without rush and without compromise. We produce political interviews with policymakers and analysts, cultural and historic documentaries that preserve our heritage, and small-business spotlights that introduce the entrepreneurs shaping our community's future.

We believe a people who tell their own story shape their own future.

Takar Media host

What we make

Political Interviews

Long-form conversations with policymakers, analysts, and community leaders shaping the Horn of Africa.

Cultural & Historic Documentaries

Visual archives of Somali language, poetry, geography, and the long arc of our history.

Small Business Spotlights

Introductions to Somali entrepreneurs and the ventures they're building, locally and across the diaspora.

Our mission

Sahan. Sheekooyin. Soomaaliyeed.

To explore. To tell. Somali. Three words that anchor everything we publish.

A platform for voices from Mogadishu to Minneapolis, Hargeisa to London — anywhere our community lives and builds.

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