This is an excerpt of the book Cold War Fallout: Boundary Politics and Conflict in the Horn of Africa written by Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe ___________________ The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 created a geopolitical situation which increased the competition among the European colonial powers for control of the coast along the Red Sea...
“Every moment wasted looking back keeps one from moving forward.” —Hillary Clinton. In a San Francisco airport lounge, I was reading Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky’s new book, The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy but Doesn’t What Shouldn’t Make You Happy but Does (January 13, 2013), when a woman who seemed to be in...
Editor’s Note: WardheerNews had the rarest of opportunities to interview Nadifa Mohamed the author of Black Mumba Boy. Black Mumba Boy, the first novel of British novelist and Somali-born author Nadifa Mohamed debuted in 2010, has been long listed for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Prize. It was also shortlisted for...
By Hassan M. Abukar There are three types of women; those who have little or nothing to say about their fathers; those who revile their fathers and those who lionize them. The American writer/poet Sylvia Plath made it fashionable to excoriate her father in the most corrosive terms. It did not matter that Plath’s father...
Raaz for MMW: I found Nomad Diaries a wonderful introduction to the lives of Somali women living in the United States. There were times where I was reminded of my own immigrant grandmother and mother as I read about Nadifo’s life. As I mentioned in my review of Nomad Diaries, I am not familiar with stories that portray an African...
W/Q WardheerNews Waxa aannu halkan idiinku soo bandhigaynnaa faallo ku saabsan ururintii u horraysay ee maansadii Eebbe naxariistii janno ha siiyee Cabdillaahi Suldaan “Timacadde”. WardheerNews waxa soo gaadhay nuskhad buug aan la faafin, madbacadna aan lagu daabicin oo teeb lagu garaacay. Kaas oo cinwaankiisu yahay “Maansadii Timacadde” oo ay wada qoreen Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale iyo...