Lidwien kapteijns biography of barack
Lidwien kapteijns biography of barack
Lidwien kapteijns biography of barack gas.
African historian focusing on Somalia and Sudan with a long-term research and teaching focus on the history of Africa, the Middle East, and Islam in Africa; translator of historical and popular culture texts in Arabic and Somali.
While my research initially focused on state and society in the late-precolonial Sudan, in recent decades it has focused on Somali history and culture.
- Women’s Voices in a Man’s World (with Maryan Omar Ali, Heinemann, 1999) analyzes constructions of gender in a wide variety of Somali oral texts, including folkloric texts and Somali popular songs of the 1970s and 1980s.
- “Making memories of Mogadishu in Somali poetry about the civil war ” is a chapter in Mediations of Violence in Africa: Fashioning New Futures from Contested Pasts (co-edited with Annemiek Richters, Brill, 2010), and deals with Somali popular culture dealing with the civil war.
- Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 20