It's not a new poem, so you've probably come across it before. The video is new-ish though, I think it came out earlier this year. Poems that speak to the soul

Why do you say "supposedly happened," oba? Edit: discussion went to PMs to avoid derailing the thread

SomaliPhilosopher;943352 wrote: ^^Oba wrote the review Wha? I read this review before and thought it was horrible. I'm familiar with his books too and he's in no place to accuse anyone of qabiil bias.

oba hiloowlow;943345 wrote: I read it, BS book biased as F Can you elaborate? I like Ladan's work a lot but haven't had the chance to read this book yet. I was thinking of suggesting her as a speaker at my university next semester, we have a weekly African studies workshop with grad students and professors presenting their recent research and I'd love to see someone talk about Somalia.

SomaliPhilosopher;943344 wrote: Safferz tus tus ba la yiraada. War was this thread made to show us all the big books your reading :rolleyes: ? lol no I wanted a thread where we could all share what we're reading, it's not my fault more of you aren't posting

Beautiful poem and video. "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love" - written and performed by Warsan Shire You are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking yours but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head and you tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile, less awake but even when sleeping you could feel him travelling away from you in his dreams so what did you want to do love split his head open? you can’t make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

The Global South has become shorthand for the world of non-European, postcolonial peoples. Synonymous with uncertain development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations fraught with corruption, poverty, incivility, and strife, it is that half of the world about which the Global North spins theories. Rarely the Global South is seen as a source of theory and explanation for world historical events. Yet, as many nation-states of the Northern Hemisphere experience increasing fiscal meltdown, state privatization, corruption, ethnic conflict, and other crises, it seems as though they are evolving southward, so to speak, in both positive and problematic ways. Is this so? How? In what measure? Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff take on these questions, reversing the usual order of things. Drawing on their long experience of living in Africa and teaching in Europe and the U.S., they address a range of familiar themes democracy, law, national borders, labor and capital, religion and the occult, liberalism and multiculturalism with the imagination and agile prose for which they are well known. They ask how we might understand these things anew with theory developed in the South. Their ethnographic eye stresses the salience of the local without losing sight of the large-scale processes in everyday lives that are everywhere enmeshed. This view from the South renders key problems of our time at once strange and familiar, giving an ironic twist to the evolutionary pathways long assumed by social scientists.

This should not be news.

Sorry Oba

QansaxMeygaag;942945 wrote: Clan Cleansing in Moga by Prof Ladan...I am somewhere in the intro pages where she is presenting her frameworks, everything from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and other interesting theories, can't wait to dig into the meat of it...Togane features quite a lot, don't know why kkk Report back when you've finished! I'm interested to hear what people think of the book.

QansaxMeygaag;942942 wrote: More like hoping IR as a critical thought area had moved on from the thoughts of a few octogenarian men...and their new proteges like Madeline Albright and Condi Rice... I still can't believe the former actually said 500,000 Iraqi babies dying was worth it... I was mocking Apophis with that comment, but you're right. IR as a field still has those same problems, and every IR major and grad student I've ever met has been a douchebag so I don't see it changing anytime soon.

SomaliPhilosopher;942937 wrote: So talks of you being a traitor is true huh? Does that trip include the somali galbeed? MOG, H-town, and a "town" I will not name to keep my mysterious appeal I am no traitor But yes, I was thinking to head to Hargeisa from Jijjiga since it's an easy trip... only issue is my immediate family in H-town will be on vacation in the UK then, and I'm not sure if I want to travel solo just for the book fair. We'll see.

SomaliPhilosopher;942935 wrote: I was there last year. If my time in Hargeisa coincides. btw caano ari is not meant to be drunk rather added to tea I hate it in tea too, somehow caano adhi tastes like a goat smells to me. It's gross. So you're planning a Somalia trip this summer? Where to? I've actually never been to the book fair, I left two weeks before last time. But I'll be in Ethiopia then, and I'm considering heading to Hargeisa for a short visit.

Yup! I think this is the 6th year. You thinking of going?

^^ Fela is awesome. I went to one of this band's shows last year, great live act:

SomaliPhilosopher;942929 wrote: War Safferz you are a complicated woman. How is Boston post Russian invasion? I think you knew that All is well here... still hard to believe there were 10,000 cops with armoured vehicles and military equipment running around my area. But I'm back on the school grind and looking forward to handing in the last of these papers so I can go back to Toronto for a few weeks

Caano adhi is disgusting, SP. That's another strike against you dee

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SomaliPhilosopher;942854 wrote: The ________ is still being written Now excuse me while I go wash my hair and finish up my Amharic homework

SomaliPhilosopher;942846 wrote: Oba, as your political adviser, I recommend you remove Safferz from this thread as her speech and vulgar manner, will incite riots amongst the religious folks and will isolate you from the wadaads, your financial backers. As Safferz's _________, I recommend you carry out this exile through perhaps sending her to the Bajuni islands, where I have a nice romantic cabin. My what? :confused: And I believe I alienated the wadaads long ago, talking about feminism and twerking

Rahima;942836 wrote: Safferz- feel special sister, the boys club is clearly intimidated by you, they've even brought out their pom poms

SomaliPhilosopher;942837 wrote: I cant always be so aggreable dee. Or at least that's what thee wifey from dhusamareb tells me.lakin safferz where they insinuating asads friend way gay?? Hmmm I didn't get that impression, did you think so?

oba hiloowlow;942834 wrote: There is another guy too the one saying ''war ii sii daa abaha w**** '' who gets taken by the americans in the hotel, i get your point tho loool.. lool I remember that! And I won't lie, it was kinda hot when Eric Bana said a few Somali words *swoons*

SomaliPhilosopher;942831 wrote: That exchange between you and Wadani is too emotional for me to read. anyway I enjoyed it as a literary work- the whole cat thing I feel a little betrayed by this SP, just when you were starting to grow on me...

oba hiloowlow;942827 wrote: loool there is somalis in the movie tho http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Sul4uEXedL Just that one guy selling AK47s lol, and there were a few attempts by non-Somali actors to throw in a few words/sentence fragments, but the vast majority was gibberish and possibly bits of other languages.