 Abdi Aadan Haad (Abdi Qays)

Abdi Qays (, , ) born in Hargeisa in the year 1940 under the British Somaliland protectorate was the only poet in Somali language to be Singer/Songwriter/Musician, Poet and Playwright.Abdi Qays was called by his nickname after playing the part of Qays Ibn al-Mulawwah in the Arabic play Layla and Majnun in Djibouti in the early 1960s and from those days the name stuck with him.