Suhaib Mahmoud

Suhaib Mahmoud reflects on the literature and reception of British-Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose literary work tells the stories of Africa’s Indian Ocean region. The impact of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 2021 Nobel Prize i

Somaliland has rejected Somalia’s attempts to force companies doing business there to change their naming conventions.

The Horn of Africa today is deeply divided, both politically and socially. These divisions have led to widespread conflict and a belief, even among members of the same ethnic group, that our differences are irreconcilable.

 This article chronicles the life of the late Somali poet Hadrawi (1943-2022) from literary, personal, and political angles.

African leaders must devise strategies to ensure their populations benefit from the continent's mineral wealth as the global transition to green energy heightens the demand for these resources.  Experts assert that “the African continent is a storehouse of alte

Somalia and Somaliland need more good faith dialogue and an honest and amicable divorce, so that two independent Somali republics can live peacefully side-by-sideThe 64th anniversary of Somaliland’s independence was m

On 18th May every year, Somaliland commemorates its declaration of independence from Somalia.

Farhadi’s film interrogates our personal and public need for the morally pure hero, revealing our more cynical motivations for idealising and propping these figures up

Scottish director Kevin Macdonald tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held in Guantanamo Bay for fourteen years without charge