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It was a great privilege to be part of the 'Pan-Africanism in the Contemporary World' workshop held in one of my homes, Addis Ababa, this past week. Thank you to Prof. Daniel Mulugeta for the invite and for creating spaces for African scholars!

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Check out my review of Adekeye Adebajo's brilliant book ‘Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Proselytiser, Pharaoh, and Pope’—it's a must-read for those who want to learn more about BBG's life and legacy at the UN.

RE: Fully funded PhD Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen, working on anticolonial geopolitics and post-imperial worldmaking in the Arab World, c. 1908-77. Application portal now open: myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/medewe… Submissions deadline is April 30th.

I wrote about the origins of the "Global South," tracing its origins through Henry Maine's vision of indirect rule, Albert Sauvy's conception of three worlds, and Carl Oglesby's critique of U.S. imperial overreach. With shoutouts to DuBois, Douglass, Mamdani and Karuna Mantena.

My article “Two Questions of Sovereignty: China and the Third World Countries in the United Nations General Assembly (1971–1990)” is now available (open access) with Global Studies Quarterly. Thank you to everyone’s advice throughout the process. academic.oup.com/isagsq/article…

My article on the remittance regulatory strategies in Somalia and Nigeria has been published in the Journal of Economic Criminology. Dialogue on Economic and Financial Crime Network The Institute of African and Diapora Studies sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There is a type of exploitation of the Global South that often gets ignored - intellectual ideas theft. Many years ago a PhD student at a prestigious university in the Western hemisphere came calling. We had lunch in Nairobi. We discussed geopolitics and a research collaboration

Great postdoc opportunity on a fantastic project I'm involved with in an advisory capacity: "Genealogies of 'humanity' in Islamic charity", based at Leiden University. Kindly circulate! universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2…

Read my latest piece for Geeska here: 👇🏾

A good read for anyone interested in Radio Mogadishu Archives by an eminent scholar Yusra Abdullahi

A really thoughtful piece by Yusra Abdullahi on her visit to Radio Muqdisho archives

Last summer, Somali scholar Yusra Abdullahi gained access to the archives of Radio Muqdisho 📻—a powerful journey into the sounds, songs, and stories that shaped 🇸🇴's early post-independence media. 🔗 geeska.com/en/radiyo-muqd…

There’s rightly a lot of focus on Somalia’s civil war, but I took a step back to write this essay for New Lines Magazine exploring the story(ies) of how we got here. I drew on archival research, memoirs, and other material I’ve read over the years, so do have a read

Mi Gente- Daedalus journal asked for an essay looking at the uses & misuses of the concept of race in African & Middle Eastern Studies. I obliged with this 12,000-word r̶a̶n̶t̶ meditation: “Exporting Race: Norms, Categories & “The All-American Skin Game” amacad.org/daedalus/expor…

🇸🇴📻 During a recent trip to Mogadishu, Yusra Abdullahi had rare access to the Radio Muqdisho archives 📻—a fragile yet vital trove of Somalia’s cultural, political, and historical memory.