Personal Life
Magan Isse was born in Somalia in 1935 as one of the nine children of Magan Isse Guleid (1845–1945). A devout Muslim and student of Somali culture, he belonged to the Cismaan Maxamuud subdivision of the Majeerteen sub-clan of the Harti Darod clan family.
Magan Isse had been married four times and had five daughters and one son. He had two daughters with his first wife. From his second marriage were born his son Mahad, his estranged daughter Ayaan, and his daughter Haweya. Haweya died in 1998. He also had a daughter from his third marriage. He later remarried his first wife, who he had divorced shortly after he married his second wife.
Magan Isse studied in Italy and in the United States at Columbia University, New York, where he obtained a degree in anthropology. As a trained linguist and anthropologist, he is known as a champion of Osmanya, the Somali writing script invented by Osman Yusuf Kenadid, unlike the former head of state, Siad Barre, who made Shire Jama Ahmed's modified Latin script the national standard in Somalia in 1972.
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