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Weliyo Family

Weliyo’s World

Hassan Weliyo proposed a project to John Walton and Public Studio, which has just been completed after four months in production. Two Videos were compiled from one shoot. The first… more than 4 hours compilation was in Mai Mai, the Weliyo’s language of their family. The second compilation was a bit shorter at just over three hours and included translated or, more accurately, paraphrased and subtitled  songs and conversations from the first video. The first video comp is being sent back to Somalia and Kenya in response to a family greetings video that was sent to the Weliyo Family last year. The second is presented here and streamed from weliyo.com where stories and histories are offered. A discussion of the loose designation of the Weliyos’ as “Somali Bantus” and the Mai Mai language by Orville Jenkens is helpful, (see his article HERE.)

See the new release (4/24/08) of the Hassan Weliyo video in Mai Mai with subtitles:

Weliyo’s World… A Message of Hope to Somalia at

http://www.weliyo.com/videos/

Director: Hassan Weliyo

Producers: John Walton and Hassan Weliyo

Mentor: John Walton