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Abdulrahim Abby Farah
Abdulrahim Abby Farah(1919 - 2018) was a politician and diplomat born in Barry. His father Abby Farah was a Somalian sailor who was awarded the MBE for services to sailors in wartime.
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His mother, Hilda Anderson ran a guest house. He was born in the aftermath of the South Wales Race Riots of 1919 which affected Barry and Cardiff.
Farah (right) was educated at Gladstone Road School and Barry Grammar School, succeeding to University College Exeter, then Balliol College Oxford. It was obviously a family of high achievers - both of his brothers also studied at Oxford.
He had already visited Somalia, or as it was then, British Somaliland, at age 17, being sent by his father to work in the Colonial Service.
After serving in the Second World War he returned to Britain for his studies.
When Somalia became independent in 1960, however, he returned there. having become Director of the Somali Information Service, Farah w