Warsame Words
The Return of a Lost Son - Chapter 1
“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath...
Warsame Words
- Jul 24, 2021
- 6 min
(S)Elections Delayed — Somalia's Roadmap to Free and Fair Elections
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable — John Kenneth Galbraith....
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Warsame Words
- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
In memory of my uncle Hassan Warsame Abtidoon.
To deny a man the social meaning of his death is to kill him twice, first in the flesh, then in the spirit — Gerard Prunier. Grief is the...
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Warsame Words
- Jun 28, 2021
- 9 min
Warriors: Life and death among the Somalis by Gerald Hanley (Book Review)
In this essay, I’m reviewing and critically reflecting on Gerald Hanley’s non-fiction travel diary from the perspective of a Somali....
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Warsame Words
- May 9, 2021
- 11 min
Data for Good — Somalia Droughts
“Data for good is a movement in which people and organisations transcend boundaries to use data science and AI to tackle today’s pressing...
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