At the Hargeisa Cultural Centre Library in Somaliland, Cassettes Archive Manager Hafsa Omer is meticulously archiving and digitising a collection of 14,000 cassettes. The tapes contain more than half a century of the music, poetry, political discussions of the self-proclaimed nation which has no global recognition. "It's holding a whole history of my people, because my people, they never write, you know, they never read. All they do is they talk," says Omer. For its director, Jama Musse Jama, the preservation is also "proof that disproves all those who say that Somaliland doesn't exist." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES