Safia Aidid
Biographic Data
| ID | 260295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Safia Aidid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Safia |
| FAMILY NAME | Aidid |
| SIGNATURE | AIDID S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5090-1224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Revolution of Letters
Colonialism in Africa was a textual encounter, with writing operating as an essential tool for colonial governance as well as a visual embodiment of Western “rationality” and civilization. Somalis, a predominantly oral people spread out across five colonial territories in the Horn of Africa, resisted Latin-based orthographies for their language because of these associations, while anticolonial nationalism following the Second World War brought th…
Women in Somalia
Although Somali women have played a dynamic and important role in the making of Somalia’s history, their histories have been obscured by archival limitations and androcentric scholarship. Women in traditional Somali society—pastoralists, agriculturalists, and urbanites alike—were central to their communities for their reproductive and productive labor. They embodied social capital, as the practice of exogamous marriage that brought them to other …
Making citizens in Africa
The new political order implemented in Ethiopia after the 1991 overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam and his socialist military dictatorship was one of ethnic regional autonomy, political devolution
Women in Somalia
Although Somali women have played a dynamic and important role in the making of Somalia’s history, their histories have been obscured by archival limitations and androcentric scholarship. Women in traditional Somali society—pastoralists, agriculturalists, and urbanites alike—were central to their communities for their reproductive and productive labor. They embodied social capital, as the practice of exogamous marriage that brought them to other …
Making citizens in Africa
The new political order implemented in Ethiopia after the 1991 overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam and his socialist military dictatorship was one of ethnic regional autonomy, political devolution
Women in Somalia
Although Somali women have played a dynamic and important role in the making of Somalia’s history, their histories have been obscured by archival limitations and androcentric scholarship. Women in traditional Somali society—pastoralists, agriculturalists, and urbanites alike—were central to their communities for their reproductive and productive labor. They embodied social capital, as the practice of exogamous marriage that brought them to other …
A Revolution of Letters
Colonialism in Africa was a textual encounter, with writing operating as an essential tool for colonial governance as well as a visual embodiment of Western “rationality” and civilization. Somalis, a predominantly oral people spread out across five colonial territories in the Horn of Africa, resisted Latin-based orthographies for their language because of these associations, while anticolonial nationalism following the Second World War brought th…
African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Ethnic group (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Geography (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work)