By Abdinoor Maalim Derow Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of soon to be released book “Youth & Truth: De-Westernizing the Mind” written by Abdinur Maalim. Youth and Trush is an amalgamation of numerous studies that are part historical and historiographical, psychiatrically tantalizing, philosophical and its branches that bring together ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics,...
Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. IssaAuthor: Mohamed Issa TrunjiPublisher: Looh PressPages: 224Publication date: 2023 Mohamed Issa Turunji is an octogenarian who served the Somali government in various capacities from 1962 to 1991. When the Civil War erupted in 1991, he joined the United Nations Agency for Refugees until his retirement in 2005. Despite his advanced age, he did...
Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. Issa Editors: Tobias Hagmann and Finn StepputatPublisher: Hurst PublisherPages: 274Publication date: 2023 Trade Makes States is an interesting addition on the growing corpus on the debates of Somali state formation. The book, edited by Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat, explores the governance of trade within the context of limited statehood and the interaction between the...
By Abdinoor Derow As a nomad child raised in the rugged, unforgiving terrain of North Eastern province, I was never afforded the same opportunities as other children in the country, let alone those in the bustling metropolis of Nairobi. As a young boy growing up in a breathtaking hamlet that is domiciled in the midst of stunningly...
Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. IssaAuthor: Hussein Khalif Jama Language: Somali Publisher: Ciid Publisher Pages: 300Publication date: 2021 What drives a young medical student to take up arms against his government? This is the central question explored by Labo Isma Saarin, a memoir by Hussein Khalif Jama, a former official of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), the first liberation...
By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks A story about a monkey outsmarting a deceitful crocodile sounds like a typical children’s book readily available on library shelves. But traditional Somali fables like “Daanyeerkii Caqliga Badnaa” are hard to find in the United States — particularly bilingual versions in both Somali and English. Several Somali families in Seattle have come together...
Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. Issa Author: Markus Hoehne Publisher: Rift Valley InstitutePages: 182Publication date : 2015 On 26th December 2022, an unarmed civilian was killed in Laacaanood. The killing was the last in a string of assassinations that began in 2009, two year after Somaliland captured the town from Puntland. By the end of December 2022, the citizens...
Reviewed by: Adan Makina Author: Dr. Georgi Kapchits Publisher: Hill Press Editor’s Note: WardheerNews, the most scholarly and journalistic digitized online magazine in the Horn of Africa wishes to share with its readers a review of the recently published book Isha Cumar ka lulata/The Knocked-Out Eye of the Hyena: Somali Folk Tales by Author Georgi...
Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. Issa Author: Afyare Abdi Elmi Publisher: Pluto Press Pages: 216 Publication date: 2010 The Publication of this book coincides with the occupation of Ethiopian troops in the capital city of Somalia and much of south-central regions. This incursion was carried out under the banner of the misguided US “war on terror”...
Reviewed by : Abdirahman A. Issa Book: SafiirkaAuthor: Peter BridgesPublisher: Kent State University PressPages: 266 Language: EnglishPublication date: 2000 Peter Bridges is an American career diplomat who has served in American foreign service for three decades. He was posted in Panama, Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Italy before being appointed ambassador to Somalia in the mid-eighties. In...