Poetry, nationalism, and al-Shabaab
In Somalia, poets are considered organic public intellectuals.
In Somalia, poets are considered organic public intellectuals.
The United States’ military operations in Somalia are not well known because they'e carried out secretly or via proxies. COVID-19 hasn't slowed them down.
April. The month of the long rains was upon us, and with its compulsive deluge flowed
For starters, you may want to switch off television news, especially "global news networks," and follow local media as well as the people below on social media.
The photographs of the terror attack at Nairobi's Westgate Mall depict an ordinary day for people at the mall gone terribly wrong.
The reactions to the Westgate Mall attacks in Nairobi makes clear the differentiation between human lives that are worthy of grief, and those that are not.
The academic Ato Quayson remembers the celebrated Ghanaian poet and intellectual, Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013), who was murdered in a terror attack in Kenya.
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to