• Devon Leger

Rapper Chino’o talks about everything from immigration to police brutality in the U.S., and the future of Somalia.

• Noosim Naimasiah

• Cawo M. Abdi

• Safia Aidid

The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.

• Johan Palme

"Unlikely Sports Heroes" partially serves to reinforce the image of inferiority. They never actually win anything.

• Jonathan Duncan

The melodic world alive in the work of Somali author Diriye Osman.

• Steffan Horowitz

A rare and informative glimpse into a situation and part of the world that normally only receives minimal, lazy, and inaccurate coverage.

• Zachary Rosen

The complexity surrounding the social and economic drivers of piracy off the Horn of Africa was lost in the media-friendly version of the story.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

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.

• Boima Tucker

Malitia Malimob, rap music and the less glamorous stories of African migration to the United States.

• Johan Palme

Barely any group has been as de-humanized as much in recent history as Somali pirates, treated almost like vermin to be rooted out.

• Steffan Horowitz

Foodyism and obscure ‘ethnic’ food are trendy these days. So, it is odd that South Africa hasn’t received more attention.

• Dan Moshenberg

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Boima Tucker

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Abdourahman Waberi

A mild mannered historian and anthropologist takes over as President of an autonomous Somali republic.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Alex Thurston

The US, which has misread the political situation in Somalia before, is again pursuing short-term military gains there at the risk of long-term blowback.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

How a political song about the aftermath of the Cold War, refugees and statelessness was defanged, first for FIFA and then for Coca Cola.