Somalia Bibliography

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Books about Somalia, and related to the country:

About the Book

"Vito Tanzi, a first-rate economist and a former top IMF official, tells his incredible stories of one economic crisis after the other. He does so with a light heart and a good sense of humor, while offering many unexpected insights and avoiding all unnecessary technicalities." --Anders Aslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics. -- Source

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Synopsis

Mohamed Osman Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1937. He studied in Mogadishu as well as abroad. He began his career at a very young age during the UN Trusteeship as a Civil Servant at the General Post Office, reaching the post of Chief Controller of the Main Cash Department. He was among the first Somalis who took up the posts help by the Italians during the period of what was called "The Somalisation". After the Post Office, he worked at the Constituent Assembly during the preparation for the country's independence. -- Source

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It takes you through a journey from the inception of the sport in Somalia in the late 1960’s to early 1990’s. It highlights the development of our regional and inter-scholastic competitions, which ultimately laid the foundations for the triumphant national team. The book contains a collection of many rare photos that are sure to astound and amaze the readers. The Book is published by Scansom Publishers in March 2008 and contains over 150 pages. -- Source

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One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurers firsthand epic account of a daring 1854 expedition to a forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on Muslim beliefs, manners and morals; plus pleasures and perils of the desert. A wealth of geographic, ethnographic and linguistic data. -- Source

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This is the most extensive book ever written on the topic of Somali football. It covers an era of more than a half a century dating from the late 1930s until 2006. The book gives a wide range of information of the last half century. It highlights the different phases that contributed to the development of Somali Football. This book is filled with photos of original clubs and the Somali national teams dating back to the early foundation of the sport in Somalia. -- Source

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The book contains 80 selected poems from over 50 best known Somali poets. Over 80% of these poems have not been published before. The book contains 170 pages (4-color cover). -- Source

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This is a historical play outlining The Dervish Movement, a movement that fought the longest anti-colonial war in Somali History for over two decades. -- Source

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Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta (1304-1354) was one of the greatest travelers of pre-modern times. He traveled to Black Africa twice. He reported about the wealthy, multi-cultural trading centers at the African East coast, such as Mombasa and Kilwa, and the warm hospitality he experienced in Mogadishu. He also visited the court of Mansa Musa and neighboring states during its period of prosperity from mining and the trans-Saharan trade. He wrote disapprovingly of sexual integration in families and of a "hostility toward the white man." Ibn Battuta's description is a unique document of the high culture, pride, and independence of Black African states in the fourteenth century. This book is one of the most important documents about Black Africa written by a non-European Medieval historian. The new appendixes include reports by contemporary Arab travelers who witnessed events described by Ibn Battuta, such as Ibn Khaldun, al-Maqqari, Ibn al-Dawadari and Al-Maqrizi. -- Source

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Volume 4 covers the monocotyledon's of Somalia which includes many of the succulents of this richly diverse arid area. Several hundred species of monocotyledons are found nowhere else in world and constitute a unique genetic resource. This volume provides a detailed picture of those grasses, sedges, palms, sea-grasses, aloes, lilies, etc that grow in Somalia. 585 species are treated. 50 of which have been described as new within the area. 304 pages, 4 color plates, 171 line drawings, hardback in dust-jacket. -- Source

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Volume 3 - the final part to be published - completes the angiosperms, and includes an index to all of the genera described in the four volumes. With 404 line illustrations and 24 colour photos. -- Source

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As with the first volume, this volume is extensively illustrated. It contains 195 fine line drawings and 24 colour photographs, making this a very practical flora for use in the field. -- Source

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The Somalia flora is very rich in comparison with other arid areas in Africa. Published in four volumes, the 'Flora of Somalia' provides the first comprehensive account of all the vascular plants known to occur in the region, and is a foundation stone for all plant related research in the country. This first volume contains 1,092 species in 72 families, with keys to the genera and species, 4 colour plates and 250 line drawings. --Source

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An avifauna of Somalia, an important area for birds about which relatively little is known. This book includes data on the nations seven endemic species and the 650 species which have been recorded there in total. Range, abundance and seasonal data are given for each species, together with an accurate distribution map for all species other than vagrants. -- Source

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The universal act of dressing -- shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority -- has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou mines politics and history in this rich and compelling study of Somali material culture. Akou explores the evolution of Somali folk dress, the role of the Somali government in imposing styles of dress, competing forms of Islamic dress, and changes in Somali fashion in the U.S. -- Source

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Numerous color and black and white illustrations, 175 pages, bibliography, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, color pictorial wrappers (softbound). Catalog of the "first major exhibition of Somali material art and artifacts in the United States." Includes chapters on Islam in Somalia and Somali Wood Engravings. -- Source

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Good thread sxb and some interesting titles. Ill post some titles later.

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Great Thread Constantine

There one book that i read recently which i throughly enjoyed it called Somali Sultanate: the Geledi city-state over 150 years. it analyzes the relationship between the inhabitants of this city over 2 centuries, how conflict, and migration have shaped Afgooya and the role it play in somali history lying on a cross road of history, trade, Politics in Southern Somalia. before this book i only knew about northern somalia history but never about the dynasties of the south which fought over control of trade in southern somalia: City-States like Merka, Afgooya and Barawa, Bardheera and Lugh Ganaane shaped southern somali history in late 19 and early 20 century but alas lost their relevance with the coming of Europeans and somalia modern politician which sideline them to the periphery.

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B.W. Andrzejewski with Sheila Andrzejewski
1993, An Anthology of Somali Poetry, Indiana University Press





"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." —Bloomsbury Review

"... this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the Somalis their most important cultural form, namely, poetry." —Bulletin of the School of Irental & African Studies

"This affordable and beautifully produced book is a small jewel in the field of Somali studies, as it is the fruit of over forty years of dedicated linguistic and literary scholarship by one of the most thorough and accurate translators and analysts of Somali poetry, B. W. Andrzejewski." —International Journal of African Historical Studies

Somalia has been called "a nation of poets." This volume makes available in beautiful English translation the very best, and most universal, of Somali poetry, from the 19th century to the present. With appendixes covering the oral and written medium, the pronunciation of Somali words, alliteration and scansion, selected bibliography, and sources.

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This Somali cookbook is the first of its kind. These recipes represent traditional ways of food preparation and cooking that were for centuries transmitted orally and practically by generations of Somali women: from mothers to daughters, elder sisters to younger sisters, aunts to nieces, grandmothers to granddaughters.

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I.M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, 4th edition (Ohio UP, Athens, 2002)

M. Diriye Abdullahi, Culture and Customs of Somalia (Greenwood Press, Westport Conn., 2001)

I. M. Lewis, Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society (Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville NJ, 1994)