Clan Cleansing in Somalia deals with the transformative violence that helped cause the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. Kapteijns argues that public acknowledgment of the clan cleansing of this p
An Islamic Alliance uses non-European sources to portray the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of some of the last parts of the African continent to be conquered during the imperial European "scra
Cloth Edition.Kapteijns' book will enlighten readers unfamiliar with the wit and spirit of Somali culture. Somali readers will find the book essential for critically engaging the received notions of
Kapteijns (history, Wellesley College, US) and Richters (culture, health, and illness; Leiden U. Medical Center and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research; the Netherlands) present six pa
This book presents Sufi poems from Brava (on Somalia’s Benadir coast) in the town’s vernacular (Chimiini). They allow insight into their authors’ intellectual world and show how the common people of t
