Foreword /Hordhaca Qoraha I would just like to take a moment to revisit the time, and especially the context i.e. my mindset- around the beginnings of my encounter with Boodhari Warsame, the translator. I had my own reasons for writing … Continued
W/Q Georgi Kapchits Si xiise leh, ayaan u akhristay maqaal uu qoray Ibraahim M. Deeq uuna magac uga dhigay “Kala Miirka Maahmaah iyo Odhaah, Gabay iyo Hees”, waxayna ila noqotay in maqaalku uu mudan yahay in laga faalloodo, siiba qaybtiisa … Continued
By Bodhari Mohamed Warsame A note on translation and the translator It is important to have a forum where literary written works produced by the Somali authors of our generation, who today write in different languages, including the mother language, … Continued
By Prof Said S. Samatar Can a case be made that adults are educable? I’ve lived a life of segmented improbabilities. I was born and raised a camel herder in the over-heated sand dunes of Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden (Somali region), … Continued
By Guuleed Samatar Dear Distinguished Professor Samatar, I read your engaging and interesting article, “Confessions of a new convert to the Geri-Koombo Clan- Family”, with fascination. As a former covert to the most accommodating noble Geri Koombe, who has since … Continued
Editor’s note: An iconoclast like Saado is a rarity. But this one was ours. A poet, an artist and a brave human right activist. She was a mother, a sister and a daughter to a whole nation. Her velvety voice, … Continued
By Prof Said S. Samatar This is the story of my recent dramatic, almost mystical conversion to the noble Geri-Koombo clan-family. What bizarre private agencies of enlightenment and pleasant beneficence that drove me into abandoning my Leelkase kin and embracing … Continued
By William Lloyd-George Camels wait for treatment from the Liyu police veterinarian teams outside Bulali town in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Credit: William Lloyd-George/IPS SOMALI REGION, Ethiopia, Jun 30 2014 (IPS) – When he was a young boy, 20-year-old Abdi, who comes from … Continued
Editor’s note: Prof Lidwien Kapteijns (Ladan) is not new to Somalia or Africa. Prof Lidwien teaches African and Middle Eastern history at Wellesley college and is the author of Clan Cleansing in Somalia (2013), Women’s Voices in a Man’s World … Continued
By Said M-Shidad Hussein On the Records Textual Accounts It seems that some scholars have not paid adequate attention to the fact that Pliny, a Roman author (d. 79 CE), and others, state that the Egyptians had contacted and influenced … Continued
Prof . Lidwien Kapteijns Introduction When large-scale violence occurs in Africa, initial analyses rarely go beyond characterizations of it (and, by implication, characterizations of the nature of the groups involved) as “ethnic” or “tribal.” Over time, more nuanced, historically based, … Continued
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