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JOURNAL OF SOMALI STUDIES Volume 1, Number 2, 2014

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ISSN : 2056-5682 (Online), 2056-5674 (Print)

Table of Contents :

The Arab Factor in Somali Culture: The Rise of the Novel in Somalia and Djibouti
Ali Jimale Ahmed 9

This article discusses the interface between the Arab factor in Somali culture and the emergence of the novel genre in Somalia and Djibouti. It argues the Somali claim to Arab ancestry has its roots in a broadly defined ‘urubah or Arabicity whose ontological and axiological base is neither racial nor ethnic, and whose affiliative contours and presumed conjunctions with Arabs are communicated in Somali. The novels discussed in this article demonstrate the need to politicize conscientiously contested grounds of memory, identity, space, and time; and reveal how the absence of such politicization leads to protracted internecine wars.

One whose string was severed

From its bond to the kinship

Survives in a tumultuous low life

A kinless untouchable, unwanted

--Mohamed A. Eno, "Don\'t Call the Outcast \'an Outcast”’

Diaspora and Development in a Fragile State
Ladan Affi39

The African Diaspora within Africa and the Impact of Slavery and Stigma in the Islamic Society: A Case Study of Somalia
Omar A. Eno & Mohamed A. Eno 61

Certain proponents of slavery in the Islamic world assert that slaves exported from East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula or areas under Arabian domain within Africa were in fact acquired not for agricultural economic purposes but rather for domestic labor. According to some scholars, this facilitated the integration of former slaves more thoroughly into Islamic communities than into the Atlantic slaveholding communities. However, while the theory of integration may hold true, at least in part, historical evidence suggests this may not be true in the case of the Bantu/Jareer¹population in the Horn of Africa, the main focus of this paper.Therefore,using the Bantu/Jareer population of southern Somalia as a case study, this paper explores the contradictions prevalent in integration theory, the impact of slavery as a social institution, and the economic functions the slaves performed in Islamic countries.

Racial and Caste Prejudice in Somalia
Mohamed A. Eno & Abdi M. Kusow 91

Based on in-depth oral interviews carried out in Mogadishu, Somalia, and countries neighboring Somalia in 2009 and 2013, our purpose in this study is to map the nature of prejudice and hate discourse used by Somalis against the Bantu Jareer and the Yibir, Gabooye, and Tumaal communities in Somalia. The hate discourse used against the Yibir, Gabooye, and Tumal outcast communities is premised on assumptions of their supposed unholy origin and their engagement in occupations and social activities that are despised by the so-called Somali noble groups. The prejudice and hate discourse against the Bantu Jareer Somalis is derived from their African origin and alleged African-like physical characteristics in comparison with the features of other Somalis.

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