Thoughts

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.

How does a refugee camp, a transient place between A and B, become a home? Kakuma shows us how.   The movement of people from their homes is not a modern phenomenon.

The Somali civil war, which started in the 1990s, has given birth to varied scholarly arguments about what caused it.

The serf emancipation movement in the western lowlands of Italian Eritrea fostered a new political consciousness in the colony that would eventually contribute to Eritrea’s liberation and transform the Horn of Africa Following World War II, the Four Pow

The work of Somali-Italian writer Igiaba Scego provides us with a fresh and critical lens on the interconnected histories of Italy and Somalia, and beckons toward more equitable futures The first time I encountered the work of Somali-Italian writer Igiaba Scego, I w

Mohamed Kheir Omer recalls his memories of khalwa, the setting of his traditional Quranic education, in EritreaLike most Eritreans born into Muslim families, my first steps into education began in a Quranic school, or khalwa, in the late 1950s.