Mahad Weli is a cybersecurity professional and researcher with a broad range of interests spanning history, politics, and digital culture. He occasionally writes about these topics at his website (link here).
Contemporary anxieties over Somali “Arabisation” frequently reproduce colonial ideas of authenticity, misread Islamic influence as cultural displacement, and overlook the more consequential erosion of language and intergenerational memory.…
Contemporary anxieties over Somali “Arabisation” frequently reproduce colonial ideas of authenticity, misread Islamic influence as cultural displacement, and overlook the more consequential erosion of language and intergenerational memory.…
In the absence of national archives and state funding, Somali archivists online are racing to preserve stories, documents and histories before they vanish for good. …
In the absence of national archives and state funding, Somali archivists online are racing to preserve stories, documents and histories before they vanish for good. …