“Chests are created as cages; a lot of things enter them while few come out, and cages seldom understand the language of wings”. In those brief words, Bob Denard, commander of military
“In order to change the reality, we must understand it. The correct understanding is to survey reality from the most remote past we remember to the furthest conceivable future. In such u
The Head of Culture Division at the African Union Commission, Mrs. Angeline Martins, once said to me that the Arabian Gulf people rarely visit us and they always view us as inferior, contrary
Many Somalis are waiting for the year 2021 to be the point of radical change towards security, stability and sustainable development With the approaching date of the first parliamentary elections of i
When talking about the Horn of Africa, it is not enough to tell the history of that region in order to learn the current state of affairs, but one has to arrive at the facts hidden from all bu
African elites often ask me the following question: “Why do we not see in the Gulf press a detailed report on happenings in sub-Saharan Africa that is written by Gulf elites?” I wo
During my study of French language in one of the African countries, I met a French academic who told me that if given the opportunity he would ask two questions. The first is for the British a
The ancient Mali Empire which is rooted in African history had various names. Some used to call it “Melli”, meaning “Hippo” in the Bambara language; some Berbers called it “Melit”
