# Asha Jama (Caasha Jaamac)

> Asha Jama (born 1960): former Mogadishu TV anchor who leads the Alberta Somali Community Center in Calgary.

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Last checked: 2026-11-12
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## Who is she?

Asha Said Jama is a Somali-Canadian social activist and former journalist, born on 15 November 1960 in [Merca](/en/regions/lower-shabelle/) ([Wikipedia, Asha Jama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Jama)). She grew up in Mogadishu and earned a journalism degree at the Lafoole campus of the Somali National University (same source).

## Journalism in Mogadishu

After graduating she worked for the state newspaper *Xidigta Oktobar*, and later became a news anchor on television ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Jama)).

## Community work in Canada

Because of unrest in Somalia, she left in the late 1980s and moved to Canada ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Jama)). She became president of the Alberta Somali Community Center in Calgary and has worked with the Canadian Somali Congress and other groups (same source; [Alberta Somali Community Center](https://web.archive.org/web/20130813064711/http://albertasomali.com/node/527)). See [Somalis in Calgary](/en/diaspora/calgary/).

## In short

A former Mogadishu newsreader who leads Somali community work in Calgary.

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