Publications

Books

• The Suicidal State in Somalia: The Rise and Fall of the Siad Barre Regime, 1969-1991 (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2016).

Book Chapters

• ‘The Big Elephant in the Room: IGAD and Ethiopia and the “War on Terror in Somalia”, in Somalia’, in Redie Bereketeab (ed.), IGAD and ECOWAS: Collaboration between Neighbours. London: Palgrave (forthcoming in 2017).
• ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Birth and the Breakdown of the Somali Armed Movements, 1976-1999’, in Redie Bereketeab (ed.), National Liberation Movements as Governments in Africa. London: Routledge (2017): 233-248.
• ‘Mothers and Memory: Suffering, Survival and Sustainability in Somali Clan Wars’, in Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan (eds.), Mothers and War: An International Perspective. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 225-240.
• ‘Redefining Somaliness through the Bantu-Jareer Community: The Absent Somalis in Somali Social and Political Landscape’, in Marisa Fois and Alesandro Pess (eds.), Politics and Minorities in Africa. Milano: Centro di Studi Africani in Sardegna (2012): 71-99.
• ‘Changing Transformation of Gender in Somalia: Women’s Struggle and Survival in Patriarchal Society’, in Nicklas Svensson (ed.), The Role of Women in Promoting Peace and Development. Lund: Media-Tyrck (2011): 200-229.

Peer-Refereed Scholarly Articles

• ‘Somali Politics and Political Somalis: The Dissolution of Democracy in Somalia upon the General Election of March 1969’ (accepted for publication in the African Security Review).
• ‘Unequal Institutions: The Mismatch between the Intelligence Agencies of the Federal Government of Somalia and Al-Shabaab’, African Security (accepted for publication in 2018).
• ‘From Al-Itihaad to Al-Shabaab: How the Ethiopian Intervention and the “War on Terror” Exacerbated the Conflict in Somalia’, Third World Quarterly (accepted for publication in 2018).
• ‘Building Peace from the Margins in Somalia: The Case for Political Settlement with Al-Shabaab’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 39, No. 2 (in press 2018):
• ‘The Invention of Al-Shabaab in Somalia: Emulating the Anti-Colonial the Dervish Movement’, African Affairs, Vol. 117, No. 467 (in press 2018).
• ‘From Pre-Colonial Past to the Post-Colonial Present: The Contemporary Clan-Based Configurations of Statebuilding in Somalia’, African Studies Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (in press 2018).
• ‘Where the State Encounters the Clan: State Violence and Clan Violence in Somalia’, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2018): 73-96.
• ‘Clan Politics and the 2017 Presidential Election in Somaliland’, Journal of Somali Studies, Vol. 4, Nos. 1-2 (2017): 117-133.
• ‘Who Assassinated the Somali President in October 1969?: The Cold War, the Clan Connection or the Coup d’État’, African Security, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2017): 1-24.
• ‘How Somalia Works: Mimicry and the Making of Mohamed Siad Barre’s Regime in Mogadishu’, Africa Today, Vol. 63, No. 1 (2016): 57-83.
• ‘“We Swallowed the State as the State Swallowed us”: The Genesis and Genealogies of Genocide in Somalia’, African Security, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016): 237-258.
• ‘Many Somalia(s), Multiple Memories: Remembrance as Present Politics, Past Politics as Remembrance’, African Identities, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2016): 348-369.
• ‘The Psychology and Philosophy of the African Conflicts: Towards a Critique of the War Narratives in Somalia and Rwanda’, Conflict Studies Quarterly, Issue 14 (2016): 3-34.
• ‘From Clan Cleansing to Galaal Cleansing: Lidwien Kapteijns’ False and Fabrications’, Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Methodology, Vol. 2, No. 1-2 (2016): 178-194.
• ‘Unmasking the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Towards a Critique of the Conflicting Historiographies in Somalia’, Global Journal of Human Social Science, Vol. 16, Issue 2 (2016): 13-23.
• ‘Methodological Misjudgements: The Myth of Clan Cleansing’, African Journal of History and Culture, Vol. 7, No. 10 (2016): 193-199.
• ‘Politics as a Profitable Business: Patronage, Patrimony, Predation and Primordial Power in Contemporary Somalia’, Journal of Somali Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 & 3 (2015): 67-97.
• ‘“Sisters; was this what we struggled for?”: The Gendered Rivalry in Power and Politics’, Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2015): 376-394.
• ‘Discrimination and Prejudice in the Nucleus of African Society: Empirical Evidence from Somalia’, African Renaissance, Vol. 10, No. 3-4 (2013): 412-433 (with Mohamed Eno and Omar Eno).
• ‘The History of Somali Piracy: From Classical Piracy to Contemporary Piracy, c. 1801-2011’, The Northerner: The Canadian Nautical Research Society, Vol. XXIII (2013): 239-266.
• ‘The Impact of Civil War and State Collapse on the Roles of Somali Women: A Blessing in Disguise’, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2013): 314-333 (with Markus V. Hoehne).
• ‘The Making of the 1990 Manifesto: Somalia’s Last Chance for State Survival’, Northeast African Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2012): 63-94.
• ‘Slavery, Colonialism and Terrorism in Africa’, African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2012): 9-26 (with Mohamed Eno, Omar Eno and Jamal Osman).

Research Reports

• ‘Corruption in the Prevention and Countering of Violent Extremism in Kenya’, commissioned by African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, 15 December 2017.
• ‘Violence Extremism and Counter-Radicalisation in Kenya’, commissioned by African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, 24 July 2017.
• ‘Al-Shabaab’s Recruitment’, UN Initiative on Peace and Reconciliation in Somalia’, 31 May 2017.
• ‘UK Aid in a Conflict-Affected Country: Reducing Conflict and Fragility in Somalia – Literature Review’, Report prepared for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), 3 November 2016.
• ‘Youth Involvement in Armed Conflict in Somalia: Violence or Organised Crime?: Literature Review’, Report submitted to African Leadership Centre, King’s College London, 6 October 2016’.
• ‘The Contradictory Trajectories of Statebuilding Discourses in Somaliland in contrast with Somalia’, Study Baseline Study, April 2016.
• ‘Nature of the State in Somalia and Somaliland: The Conversations of the Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Processes’, July 2016.

Non-Refereed Articles

• ‘Honouring Professor Lee V. Cassanelli’, New DALKA, Vol I, Issue II (2017): 19-21.
• ‘Lament (Baroordiiq): The Loss to Somali Studies of four Luminaries in 2014’, Journal of Anglo-Somali Society, Issue 58 (Spring 2015), 30-35.
• ‘State and Society in Somalia: An Historical Perspective’, Journal of Anglo-Somali Society, Issue 52 (Autumn 2012): 27-28.
• ‘Somalia: From Finest to Failed State’, Africa Review (part I, II, III), 17 September, 22 September and 28 September 2010.