Sunday 18 January 2026
Ali Mumin Ahad is a Somali writer, academic and intellectual. Ahad completed his undergraduate degree in economics at Somali National University, where he also served as a lecturer in international economics. He earned a master’s degree in agribusiness from Sacred Heart University in Milan, Italy, and was awarded his doctorate by La Trobe University in Australia. Ahad has published numerous articles and two books on Somali history, literature, and historiographical writing. He is the author of the book Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State.
Articles by the Author
Interviews
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Somali academic Ali Ahad interviews the acclaimed, award-winning Somali author Nuruddin Farah about the Somali civil war, his work as a writer, and the challenges faced by Somali refugees.…
Somali academic Ali Ahad interviews the acclaimed, award-winning Somali author Nuruddin Farah about the Somali civil war, his work as a writer, and the challenges faced by Somali refugees.…
Thoughts
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For a long time he had been the manager of all of these properties, including the many villas and the banana plantation owned by his Italian uncle. Then, he became the owner after Uncle Giovanni nominated him as his only heir. But that is another story. Indeed, it could be the prologue to…
For a long time he had been the manager of all of these properties, including the many villas and the banana plantation owned by his Italian uncle. Then, he became the owner after Uncle Giovanni nominated him as his only heir. But that is another story. Indeed, it could be the prologue to…
Thoughts
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It is very difficult to choose where to start this short piece that I intended to share with much younger and brilliant open-minded people as you are today. However, I do not know a particular wording, phrase, or topic to begin these conversations with myself and, indirectly, to those who I think…
It is very difficult to choose where to start this short piece that I intended to share with much younger and brilliant open-minded people as you are today. However, I do not know a particular wording, phrase, or topic to begin these conversations with myself and, indirectly, to those who I think…
Thoughts
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My name is Ali Mumin Ahad, I was born in Beled Weyne, Somalia. There I attended elementary school at the Catholic Mission of Beled Weyne, then I was relocated to Mogadishu in the Collegio Nuova Somalia (a boarding school) to attend intermediate school (Mons. Filippini, then named after Abdulkadir…
My name is Ali Mumin Ahad, I was born in Beled Weyne, Somalia. There I attended elementary school at the Catholic Mission of Beled Weyne, then I was relocated to Mogadishu in the Collegio Nuova Somalia (a boarding school) to attend intermediate school (Mons. Filippini, then named after Abdulkadir…