A journey to Harar
In Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi, khat is more than an important export product in a capitalist economy; she captures khat’s roles and meanings in everyday Harari life.
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Safia Aidid
Safia Aidid is a historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
In search of Ethiopia’s past and present
The film “Finding Sally” grapples with Ethiopia’s past, but may romanticize its present.
An ode to Somali girlhood
A new film set in Djibouti City presents a searing class critique of Somali girlhood.
The ghosts of Adwa
The Ethiopia inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism in 1896 was a colonizing state itself.
Can the Somali Speak?
The hashtag #CadaanStudies put the spotlight on the domination of Somali Studies by whites scholars.