Nima Djama


Nima Djama is a composer and singer from Djibouti. In the 1976, Nima Djama sang famous patriotic song for Djibouti independence. She is also heavily involved in Djiboutian politics.

Biography

Nima Djama was born in 1948 in Ali Sabieh, situated in the southern of Djibouti. She came from a nomadic family from the Issa sub-clan of the Somali. She started singing in 1969 at the age of 21, she sang against the French administration who will not give a fair referendum for her country become an independence nation. There was vote rigging in the referendum of 1967. After that song she became popular across the country. She then joined the cultural troupe as a Somali singer Now she lives in Ottawa, Canada.

Singles