Scheduled to be held in Senegal in the coming months, Africa Union Day Foundation, AUDF is set to posthumously award the iconic Somalia’s Hodan Nalayeh with the prestigious ‘Daylight Africa Award’.
AUDF, a New York based organization Cofounded by the founder of Muslim Media Corporation, Sheikh Musa Drammeh, holds ‘Hodan Nalayeh Award’ yearly with many awards dished out to outstanding African icons around the world.
In a statement on Thursday June 2, 2022, the foundation President, Gbenga Shubair disclosed that the annual ‘Hodan Nalayeh Award’ will be launched during Daylight Africa Week” in Senegal.
According to his the statement, Shubair confirmed that late Nalayeh will also be posthumously awarded the prestigious ‘Daylight Africa Award’ on September 9, 2022 during African Union Day celebration in Senegal.”
He noted that the event will honour Hodan Nalayeh, a 43-year-old journalist killed in Somalia.
The Somali-Canadian media executive, marketing consultant, social activist and entrepreneur Hodan Nalayeh and her husband Farid Juma Suleiman were killed during a terrorist attack at Hotel Asasey in Kismayo, Somalia, on July 12, 2019.
Al-Shabaab based in Southern Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Nalayeh served as the President of the Cultural Integration Agency, a full-service media firm specializing in the development, production, marketing and distribution of multicultural programs.
In February 2014, the company partnered with Cameraworks Productions International to produce a new television format for cultural community programming.
Besides media production and consultancy, Nalayeh was involved in voluntary and advocacy work for the Somali community and also worked closely with a number of non-profit organizations.
She founded the Somali Refugee Awareness Project, which in 2011 presented the veteran Somali artist Saado Ali Warsame with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
