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Ibrahim Harbi possesses the sort of softly persuasive voice that befits a man tasked with such a huge responsibility. “The main aim of the Somali Integration Society is to help the Somali community integrate into Welsh society,” he says. “The question is – what do we mean by integration?”

The question is a pertinent one. Cardiff is home to between 8,000 to 10,000 Somalis, the largest such community in the UK.… Continue

What do you want when you visit the web? To interact with "the most creative organisation in the world"?

Then join 80 per cent of British adults in consuming BBC content and head on over to its Interactive site. Where viewing audiences for television and read… Continue

"It created new ways of talking; it created new ways of thinking." Just another speech about the absolute power of the internet, right?

Interestingly, no. In fact,… Continue

"Digital storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling." So says the Digital Storytelling Association, one of the many homes of an ever-increasing field of cyber narratives populating the World Wide Web.

But does digital storytelling really live up to this somewhat boastful bri

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For the Capturing Cardiff task I intend to look at the Cardiff Somali community. Most Somali immigrants can be found in Butetown, where the Red Sea House scheme for retired Somali fisherman provides support as they integrate into the community.

Much of the Somali population is from a fishing background, having either served in the Royal Navy or arrived in the 19th century to search for work in the coal shipping industry. Most arrived in the last 20 years, and having received little edu

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