Editor

Ayub is a writer and independent researcher. His intellectual curiosity extends to a wide array of subjects, including politics, philosophy, history with a special interest in comparative politics.

Community Relations and Comms

Ahmed pursues scholarly writing as an avocation, with concentrated interests spanning historical enquiry, political science, public policy development, and diplomatic studies.

His background in political administration informs his broader intellectual project of examining and critically analysing the structural dynamics of Somali governance and political culture.

Research & Theoretical Development

Dabindiid is a postgraduate researcher in Somali studies with a primary interest in Somali intellectual history. He is seeking to situate the crises of Being in the Horn within a critical, systematic and historically grounded inquiry into premodern political thought. Engaging with Somali conceptions of power, legitimacy, ethics and subjectivity from first principles he seeks to reconstruct a robust intellectual history of the Somali Horn that foregrounds indigenous political imaginaries.

Beyond Somali studies, his intellectual interests also extend to Islamic liberation theology, decolonial thought and third worldist history, committed to connecting regional traditions of political thought within broader global struggles for justice, liberation and self-determination

Political Analysis & Commentary

Raxma is an essayist with a focus on gender and class politics in the third-world. Her current interests involve political commentary on the intersections between imperialism, colonization, gender, race, and the family to understand the particular and universal constructs of power.

She relates to Somalia by investigating premodern socioeconomic conditions to move beyond the tribal and egalitarian conventions which restrict analyses on the contemporary state.

Organisational Strategy and Programming

Ibrahim is a writer, archivist, and independent researcher. A co-founder of Koor Archives, his scholarly focus encompasses the social organisation of the Somali Horn from antiquity to the contemporary period (1000 BCE to present), examining the intersection of poetry and Somali political identity, with particular attention to the work of Hadraawi, and investigating the sociopolitical dimensions of poetic metre in Somali identity formation.

He is currently working on his first monograph, which explores the metre of southern Somali poetic forms.

Political Education

Mustafa is a post-graduate student in the field of theology and religious studies. His primary focus lies with anti-imperialism and third world development