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for the new issue of @TheFunambulist_ i wrote an essay on Keli Asaayle (the canal of mourning) and how colonial violence haunts and shapes the landscape of the Shabeelle river valley in Somalia thefunambulist.net/magazine/follo…

Tomorrow:

Twin Cities friends, come to Maxamed Abu-maye's book talk this afternoon:

My latest for @TheCut — a convo with Somali chef Ifrah F. Ahmed about her debut cookbook, SOOMAALIYA, and how she's proud to educate people about Somalia's rich history & culture via its food thecut.com/article/ifrah-…

Another Eid under unceasing war and destruction. I pray the people of Sudan, Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine will see the next one in peace 🤲🏾

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Penned some thoughts on Somaliland nationalism in the wake of the depraved mutual recognition agreement with Israel last Dec. It was mostly written about a month before the war on Iran & Lebanon and v recent (worrying) developments there. Hope it's a useful contribution!

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For those who missed the print issue, the article is now live on the Funambulist website:

@Dumebioloo Thank you!

@iimaanm (So excited you asked!) 🇰🇪Out of Africa (1985) The Kitchen Toto (1988) —Something of Value (1957 🇺🇬State Research Bureau (S.R.B.) (2011) —94 Terror (2018) watch with 🇷🇼Hotel Rwanda (2004) (not East African production but essential) 🇸🇸🇸🇩Khartoum (2025) Nature; Virunga (2014)

First syllabus done for fall 2026: History of East Africa

@bwesigye Thanks for the recommendation!

@iimaanm Great syllabus, and thanks for sharing. Week 11 could do well with Lwanga Lunyiigo's Uganda: An Indian Colony and Decker's In Idi Amin's Shadow as companions to Slow Poison. Peterson's could be dropped altogether, really.

@Dumebioloo One of the major assignments is to analyze a film or novel about East Africa in the 19th or early 20th century. Do you have any film recommendations?

@iimaanm Great Syllabus; will you be adding any films to this?

@Sdet_M I chose the readings based on what would be most accessible to students in an introductory class without prior knowledge of the subject but I will definitely include Oromo history in the lectures. If you have any reading recommendations, please share!

@iimaanm I might read those. But Bahru is a bit mainstream. Why not look for Oromo scholars who show the colonial character of Ethiopia, especially from Menelik on? And EPLF's totalitarian character in the last one. Btw, do you sometimes work with fiction, or have students who do so?

Excellent interview with Samar Al-Bulushi on Israel and Somaliland

@ontologoff the writing/translation is sooo good, beyond the excellent storytelling

@iimaanm Season of Migration to the North is one of my all time favs!

Both mid century novels but I read them for the first time this year

@safiyaaaay it really is the perfect postcolonial novel, i cant believe it took me so long to read it

@iimaanm season of migration to the north is so good

@xirsigdsn i've been meaning to read this! also his new book on palestine with robert knox and rafeef ziadah

@iimaanm Really shifted my thinking on communism really was and how not that different it was from capitalism if you look at USSR as an energy/crude oil project that contested Western big oil

@safiyaaaay @TheFunambulist_ thank you sis ❣️

@iimaanm @TheFunambulist_ amazing, can't wait to read it when it's out!!

for the new issue of @TheFunambulist_ i wrote an essay on Keli Asaayle (the canal of mourning) and how colonial violence haunts and shapes the landscape of the Shabeelle river valley in Somalia thefunambulist.net/magazine/follo…

@xirsigdsn lol yes, the clan stuff is not irrelevant but it is not at all the original sin everyone makes it out to be. i wish i could find some good writing on post-2000s rural land tenure/politics in the river valley. the little research i've done there, everyone is too terrified to speak

@iimaanm Basically textbook capitalist violence I got tricked into thinking was about clans (😂😂)