Reviewed by Abdelkarim Hassan Book: Sacred Hoops Authors: Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty(2006). New York : Hyperion The Oakland California-based Golden State Warriors basketball team, recently won the NBA championship of 2014/2015 season for the first time in 40 years. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to Oakland Victory Parade for the championship. Steve Kerr...
November 6, 2026
Category: Book Shelf
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Little Mother: A Book Review
Reviewed by Lidwien Kapteijns Author: Cristina Ali Farah. Little Mother: A Novel, translated from the Italian by Giovanna Dellezia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto. Introduction by Alessandra Di Maio. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. Xxvi + 235 pp. This novel presents the experience of Somali refugees in Italy in the first fifteen years after their...
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Ololihii (The Campaign)
Editors Note: Ololihii (The Campaign) is excerpted from the new book, Mogadishu Memoir, by Hassan M. Abukar, a frequent contributor to WardheerNews. The memoir is a personal account of the social and political events of Somalia as seen through the eyes of a young man coming of age. Published by the AuthorHouse, the book is...
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The Lean Startup-By Erick Ries: A Book Review
By Abdelkarim A Hassan Startup companies have high rate of failures. Some studies indicate that within 3 years, 92% of startups fail. The book, The Lean Startup, how today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses, is a great tool for overall businesses; it provides a valuable process improvement on how to build...
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In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi
By Ryan Michael Williams In the alternate world of Abdourahman A. Waberi’s novel In the United States of Africa, Eritrea is a major financial center, and the space race was won by Madagascar. Desperate Caucasian refugees flee impoverished and war-torn states like Switzerland and Spain in the hope of finding new homes and better lives...
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Nomad Diaries Rekindles Old Memories
By Adan Makina Editor’s note: Peaking into the rich WDN archives full of ten years of rare collection of historical pieces, news, commentary, opinion as well as cultural and poetry analysis and writing from across the globe, we come upon a jewel, a rarity, a genius piece of writings, honest and true and free of bias....
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Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’
By LAILA LALAMI Hiding in Plain Sight” begins with a threat. One evening in Mogadishu, Aar, a logistics officer for the United Nations, receives a letter in the mail. It consists of a single, misspelled word, but it’s terrifying all the same: deth! Aar wants to return to his home in Nairobi on the first...
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PRIDE & PREJUDICE: LIFE STORY OF A SOMALI IN EXILE: A translation of Abdi Farah Saeed Juha’s QAB IYO QUURSI
By Bodhari Mohamed Warsame CHAPTER TWO Adventurous Exile I am not sure what time it is. I do not wear a watch, but anyway, it should be about early evening hours. I know that it is in the early hours of the night in East Africa, because the general curfew is yet to be announced....
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Book on apostasy in Islam earns writer the moniker ‘Somalia’s Salman Rushdie’
By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya — A Somali scholar is stoking Muslim anger after he published a book questioning the concept of the death penalty for apostasy in Islam. Now, he is being branded as “Somalia’s Salman Rushdie” a reference to the British_Indian novelist whose book, “The Satanic Verses,” provoked worldwide Muslims protests and a...
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Farah’s brutal honesty about home
Author Nuruddin Farah. PHOTO | FILE By JOHN MWAZEMBA Awash with SIM cards and zealots, AK47s and thousands of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Somalia has seen fierce gunfights and horrifying bomb blasts — leaving wrecked metal, twisted flesh and broken dreams in their wake. In his latest novel, Crossbones, Nuruddin Farah, the famous Somali novelist, evokes...