Golol Gallery

Fine arts from the first and last independent gallery in Somalia. Ali Said Hassan, assembled.

The long-standing Somali civil war and the preceding collapse of the last military regime resulted in an unimaginable devastation and near total destruction of the nation’s heritage. Which destroyed cultural memories, archives as well as historical centers such as the National Museum, National Academy and the only privately owned and collected gallery known as the Golol Art Gallery, of which Mr. G  ...