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First Day of Somali Week

For twelve days each summer, Minneapolis and Saint Paul become the largest Somali cultural capital in the Western world. Streets close. Stages rise. Forty thousand people come home.

Somali Week MN is more than a festival — it is the largest sustained gathering of the Somali diaspora in North America, and a love letter to the Minnesota that welcomed us.

"We don't just celebrate where we come from — we celebrate the Minnesota we have built together."— SOMALI WEEK MN ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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