Thoughts

Somali writer Abdi-Rizak Warfa examines the challenges that Somalis in Ethiopia continue to face, despite gains in representation and the establishment of a Somali regional state.

Somalia has withdrawn from an Africa-wide football tournament for players still in their respective national leagues, citing a lack of funds, which raises important questions about the use of resources.

In 1980, Somali scholar and anti-imperialist psychiatrist Hussein Bulhan wrote a paper on the colonial partitioning of the Horn of Africa and its effects on the Somali psyche. He ambitiously attempted to sketch out its impact on the Somali mind and culture.

Tom Farer recalls his time in Mogadishu as a legal assistant and his friendship with Mohamed Abshir, who served as the commander of the Somali police before being ousted in the 1969 coup.  In early September 1963, I found myself stepping off a plane onto the ho

Photographer and storyteller Mohamed Mohamud reflects on nearly a decade of documenting the stories of the worldwide Somali diaspora.  Diasporas exist for a variety of reasons.

The drive to realise the Greater Somalia project was an effort to reverse and remedy the effects of the Somali colonial experience, which, though unrealistic, was once seen by many as a cause worth struggling for. There are fe

Author, writer and translator, Abdiaziz Mahdi reflects on how war robs children of their childhoods.  “If children could, if adults knew.” ― Sigmund Freud  

Patrick Gathara writes about western politics in the same way westerners write about African and Asian countries.

In 1957, a controversial Egyptian diplomat was murdered in Mogadishu.