Friday 12 December 2025
Jama Yusuf is a scholar at the Center for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS) and a doctoral candidate in Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Articles by the Author
Analysis
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As election season renews the search for a national rescuer, Somalia must confront a harder truth: personalities don’t save nations, institutions do. Escaping Barre’s long shadow requires reviving the democratic culture our early leaders once built.…
As election season renews the search for a national rescuer, Somalia must confront a harder truth: personalities don’t save nations, institutions do. Escaping Barre’s long shadow requires reviving the democratic culture our early leaders once built.…
Opinion
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Somalia’s long experiment in rebuilding has created more rivalry than reform. A quarter century on, the state-building project itself is what everyone is fighting over.…
Somalia’s long experiment in rebuilding has created more rivalry than reform. A quarter century on, the state-building project itself is what everyone is fighting over.…
Thoughts
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Somali clans do not have a defense ministry. Nor do they maintain a standing military force. Yet, waging war remains one of their main and most frequent roles. How do they manage such a complex and costly process? …
Somali clans do not have a defense ministry. Nor do they maintain a standing military force. Yet, waging war remains one of their main and most frequent roles. How do they manage such a complex and costly process? …
Thoughts
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A nation bound by language and lore yet divided by history and its meanings. Kalamaan reveals how Somalis remember, together, and apart.
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A nation bound by language and lore yet divided by history and its meanings. Kalamaan reveals how Somalis remember, together, and apart.
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