Yusra Abdullahi
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@ysabdullahi
PhD Candidate @UniLeiden - Working on the project ‘African Activism at the UN’
🆕 How do communities organise aid during crisis? @Fatimaa_dm, @Nauja_Kleist and @karutikk examine how Somali WhatsApp groups function as spaces for coordinating drought relief, extending kinship-based support into digital humanitarian action. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/000203…
Our book is out ! After months of research, writing, exciting feed back from reviewers, here it is at last: Reinventing Uganda. Political Imagination and Social Change after the fall of Idi Amin, Nairobi, Africae, Kampala, Makerere University Press, 2025.
two rounds of revisions and nine reader reports later, my article “A Revolution of Letters: Text, Sight and Spectacle in Socialist Somalia” was just accepted for publication by the American Historical Review
CfP: Join us in Maputo, Mozambique, January 26th and 27th for a Junior Scholars Workshop on "Popular Cultures and African Futures." Co-hosted by @kaleidoscopiomz and the Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.
#21cBB WC3 Winner goes through to the Grand Finals [27] Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker; 2001) [29] Taare Zameen Par (Aamir Khan; 2007) [15] Dil Chahta Hai (Farhan Akhtar; 2001) 2000s Aamir Khan Derby
This is a very interesting paper on the financial regulation reforms and their implications in Somalia. Very few texts exist in this area, and this is indeed a major contribution. Congratulations to @musegeellejr hilin.org/pub/post-hipc-…
