• Farah Bakaari

The British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s audacious yet uneven volume of poetry captures the quiet loneliness of African immigrant lives in the West.

• Faisal Ali

The novelist Nadifa Mohamed complicates Britain’s troubled, racist legal history through the personal tale of one otherwise insignificant person, a Somali immigrant to Cardiff in Wales.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

Somalis have enough to worry about. The last thing they need is more war, especially one sponsored by the United States’ War on Terror.

• Abdullahi Abdille Shahow

Somali refugees in Kenya are held hostage by political disagreements between their governments. Under international law, Kenya has a duty to protect them.

• Samar Al-Bulushi

African states are involved in the War on Terror more than we think. They're surrounded by an eco-system of the war industry.

• Mohamed Duale
• Jabril Abdullahi

Exploring the different neighborhoods within Mogadishu raises the question: who is this city really for?

• Keren Weitzberg

Borders and camps across Africa are using biometrics to track refugees. For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies.

• Rasna Warah

Why the World Food Program doesn't deserve the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Bhakti Shringarpure

Somali-Canadian writers lay bare the harsh realities of being Black, migrant and Muslim in multicultural and ostensibly tolerant Toronto.

• Mohamed Duale

Reflecting on the 60th anniversary of Somalia’s Independence with Fouzia Warsame, one of the country's most prominent academics.

• Liz Timbs

The labor and political organizing of Somali immigrants in the US Midwest should inspire more Americans to join the broader movement for worker rights and racial equality.

• Rasna Warah

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.

• Abraham T. Zere

A new thriller by Andrew Welsh-Huggins follows a detective investigating the disappearance of a Somali-American teenager in Ohio.

• Abdi Latif Ega

The writer, a "Global" Somali traveler, reflects on borders, airports, and belonging.

• Endre Dalen

The Somali artist and DJ, Hibotep, is one of the many pushing electronic hybrid sounds from East Africa through the epicenter of the movement, Kampala.

• Alexander Dawson

The novel The Youth of God offers fresh perspectives on Somali assimilation and struggle in Canada's largest city.

• Abdi Latif Ega

Every time you project terror onto Somalis, remember to ask how we live in Mogadishu.

• Abdi Latif Ega

In Somalia young people are the majority, yet have to act and perform “age"—appear older—to succeed or get anywhere in life.

• Keren Weitzberg

What use are academic categories when they reinforce conservative concepts scholars seek to challenge?

• Ahmed Ibrahim