East Africa

Fighting Terror Through Justice: Implementing the IGAD Framework for Legal Cooperation Against Terrorism

by Matthew Schwartz

Co-authored with the Task Force on Legal Cooperation against Terrorism in the IGAD Subregion.

East Africa and the Horn face a number of transnational security threats, including terrorism, transnational crime,... more East Africa and the Horn face a number of transnational security threats, including terrorism, transnational crime, and piracy. In recent years, particularly following the July 2010 attacks in Kampala, al-Shabaab has been increasingly viewed as a threat not only to Somalia, but to the greater subregion. Tourism has declined and shipping costs have risen due to the threat of piracy from Somalia. Lawless pockets where government reach is weak, together with rampant corruption, have turned the region into a major transit point for black market financial flows and various forms of illicit trafficking.

Terrorism and transnational crime increasingly threaten security in the subregion of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development [IGAD]. Because of their transnational nature, no individual IGAD member state will single-handedly be able to deal effectively with these threats. As the IGAD Security Strategy adopted in December 2010 makes clear, effective cooperation will be crucial to winning the struggle against terrorism and to ensuring that other forms of transnational crime do not similarly jeopardize the IGAD subregion’s growth, prosperity, and stability.

Archaeologies of Disenchantment

by Jonathan Walz

In Postcolonial Archaeologies in Africa. Pp. 21-38. School for Advanced Research Press.
2009

Archaeopolitics and Postage Stamps in Africa

by Jonathan Walz

Commentary:
African Arts 38(2): 8, 88 & 96.
2005

Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno, Mohamed H. Ingiriis, and Jamal M. Haji; Published in African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012.

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

Income Generating Activities and Savings Behaviour of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Karamoja

by Karol Czuba

A series of crises which Karamoja experienced in recent decades has compromised the viability of livelihood strategies... more A series of crises which Karamoja experienced in recent decades has compromised the viability of livelihood strategies on which its largely agropastoralist and pastoralist population had traditionally relied. The paper investigates the effects which this development has had on some of the region’s most vulnerable inhabitants: adolescent girls and young women who participate in BRAC’s Youth Development Programme (YDP). It uncovers the scale of livelihoods transition which has eroded previously well-defined gender roles and forced Youth Development Centre (YDC) members, and many other Karamojans, to become involved in the newly-emerged monetised economy through small-scale income generating activities (IGAs). The paper also considers participation in BRAC’s savings scheme targeted at YDC members who – given the recent emergence of cash economy in Karamoja – currently have little experience of managing financial flows and insufficient capital to expand their economic activities.

The Renaissance of the Bantu Languages in Literature

by Susanna Iacona Salafia

Colloquium on Urbanization in Ancient Africa Brings Together New Scholars

by Douglas Park 

Douglas P. Park (2011). Written with Lauren Lippiello. 2011. Published in Yale Environmental News, Vol:17; No: 1; Pp. 10

Graduate and post-graduate students gathered at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) on April 8–9, 2011,... more Graduate and post-graduate students gathered at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM) on April 8–9, 2011, for the Urbanization in Ancient Africa Colloquium, which brought together new scholars from around the world to explore the conception, appearance and function of different forms of urbanity on the African continent. Presentations included material on urban communities from Senegal to Egypt, Libya to Tanzania, and spanned the period from 4000 BC to AD 1700.

language, asylum and the national order (Current Anthropology 2009)

by Jan Blommaert

Matrimony Unpropitious

by Mohamed Eno

Another excerpt from the book Corpses on the Menu

The African masses should beware of a total subscription to the 'Shared Values' project. Previous as well as current... more The African masses should beware of a total subscription to the 'Shared Values' project. Previous as well as current hardships created by the West should give us enough reading of where we are heading and who to trust along the journey.

The effects of wealth on livestock dynamics among the Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania

by Daniela Sieff

Herding strategies of the Datoga pastoralists of Tanzania: is household labor a limiting factor

by Daniela Sieff

Understanding Somalia through the Prism of Bantu Jareer Literature

by Mohamed Eno

In Ali J. Ahmed and Taddesse Adera, eds., The Road Less Traveled:
Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africa.

This essay intends to touch briefly on the comparative cultures between Somalia and some of the communities in the... more This essay intends to touch briefly on the comparative cultures between Somalia and some of the communities in the neighboring countries. Second, the essay discusses the culture and literature of the Bantu Jareer, and their "thought and knowledge," which Sorokin calls "the very essence of civilization." To embark on this journey, we must unlearn much of what has been said of the Jareer, in particular, and of Somali culture in general. This is important if we are to discover what constitutes the aesthetics of Jareer history, literary art, social culture and thought. This act of unlearning what is committed to the official collective memory of the Somali demythologizes what I call "monoculturality of the camel complex" so pervasive in discussions of Somali culture. It is an act also that will help us uncover the Jarrer's "...tool of self-definition in relation to others."-Wa Thiong'o.

Inclusive but Unequal: The Enigma of the 14th SNRC and the Four-Point-Five (4.5) Factor

by Mohamed Eno

in Abdulahi A. Osman & Issaka K. Souare (Eds.) Somalia at the Crossroads: Challenges and Perspectives on Reconstituting a Failed State. London: Adonis & Abbey Publishers

Intellectualism amid Ethnocentrism: Mukthar and the 4.5 Factor

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno; Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies Vol.9, 2009, pp. 137-145.

Identity Crisis and Ethnic Marginalization in Somalia: The Case of the Bantu Jareer Community

by Mohamed Eno

VERITAS: The Academic Journal of St Clements University Vol. 1, No. 1, September 2009

The Journey Back to the Ancestral Homeland: The Return of the Somali Bantu Wazigua to Modern Tanzania

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authhored with Omar A. Eno;  In Abdi M. Kusow & Stephanie R.  Bjork (Eds.) From Mogadishu to Dixon: The Somali Diaspora in a Global Context. Trenton NJ: The Red Sea Press Inc.

Charlatans Chicanery

by Mohamed Eno

Thr poem is an excerpt from my forthcoming volume Guilt of Otherness

The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic. The volume is under review with a subject area expert and a literary critic.

Whose Values Are Promoted in the African Union’s ‘Shared Values’ Project?

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with OA Eno, JM Haji & A Bencherab

Mohamed A. Eno, Omar A. Eno, Jamal M. Hagi, and Azzeddine Bencherab poses a thought-provoking question in their... more Mohamed A. Eno, Omar A. Eno, Jamal M. Hagi, and Azzeddine Bencherab poses a thought-provoking question in their contribution, Whose Values Are Promoted in the African Union’s ‘Shared Values’ Project?, revealing a thought-provoking discussion and also highly-insightful answers to this timely question.

Surveying through the Narratives of African Identity

by Mohamed Eno

with Omar A. Eno, In Jideofor Adibe (Ed.) Who Is an African?: Identity, Citizenship and the Making of the Africa-Nation (For citation: Eno, M. A. & Eno, O. A. "Surveying through the Narratives of African Identity" In Jideofor Adibe (Ed.) Who is an African?: Identity, Citizenship and the Making of the Africa-Nation. London: Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd. (pp 61-78)

Originary syncretism and the construction of Swahili identity, 1890-1964: an experiment in history and theory

by Louise Rolingher