Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows.

Dhaxalreeb: An Academic Journal of Somaliland Centre for African Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2025), pp. 17-57 (41 pages) This paper explores the historical and structural marginalization of the ...

Islam in Somali history : fact and fiction / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar -- Aspects of the Benadir cultural history : the case of the Bravan Ulama / Mohamed M. Kassim -- The invention of Gosha : slavery, ...

Somali security forces and others gather and search for bodies near destroyed buildings at the scene of Saturday’s blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. The death toll from the huge ...