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"Siad Barre above all is a chauvinist": Fidel Castro on his meeting with the Somali leader
Castro was part of a delegation that visited Somalia and Ethiopia on the eve of Mogadishu's failed invasion in 1977
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"On almost every issue, you oppose us": Kissinger's bizarre meeting with a Somali minister
In a surreal meeting Henry Kissinger and Hussein Abdulkadir Kassim attempted to iron tensions between Mogadishu and Washington
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Ethiopia Worried by Coming Vote On Independence in French Colony – NYT
As Djibouti's independence loomed officials in Addis Ababa, stills struggling to stabilise their new revolutionary regime, were anxious that it would…
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Don't aid Somalia, Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan (1982)
Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan, a Somali psychologist and Fanon scholar wrote a NYT article warning the US against aiding the Barre regime.
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'The Arabs and Somalis need each other': Barre's speech as Somalia joins Arab League
Barre told an audience that Somalis and Arabs had strayed from one another during the colonial era, but adding there would be no more straying
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Which Way to the Sea, Please?, by Nuruddin Farah
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"On almost every issue, you oppose us": Kissinger's bizarre meeting with a Somali minister
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Al Shabab produces Battle of Mogadishu documentary: interview with Chris Anzalone
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The Superpowers and the Ogaden War, Washington Post (1978)
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Mohamed Isa Trunji on Somalia's lack of a "father of the nation" and the collapse democracy in 1960
Mohamed Isa Trunji is one of Somalia’s most prominent historians. He reflects on the collapse of Somali democracy in the late 1960s, the lack of a…
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'There was no choice': Siad Barre makes his first speech after the 1969 coup
Barre stressed that "no problems have arisen as a result of the revolution" in a speech three days after he ousted the government
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Somalia committed to military intervention against Israel in the Six-day war
As Somalia geared up for a presidential election in 1967 war broke between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. Somalia came down on the Arab side
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The role of sports in the Somali revolution
The revolutionary government identified sport as one of the key tools to bring about the "complete transformation of Somalia"
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Which Way to the Sea, Please?, by Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah published his essay on Ethiopia's maritime aspirations and imperial designs for the Horn of Africa in 1978
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The USSR is unlikely to back such an 'unpromising state', US briefing says of Somalia
Moscow would go onto become one of Somalia's most committed backers
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Modern Somali History: A Beginners Reading List
Here are some books which I think would give a good primer for anyone interested in reading modern Somali history
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Siad Barre tells students his government "liberated religion from the devil"
He made the speech a month after 10 religious scholars were executed for opposing his changes to the country's new family law
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Soviet Union and Arabs Are Quietly Competing for Influence in Somalia's Socialist System (NYT 1975)
The New York Times published a story examining growing competition among Middle Eastern states and the USSR for influence in post-coup Somalia.
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Socialist Somalia
Socialist Somalia
This Substack will document and archive all things from Somalia's brief experiment with socialism between 1969 and 1991 before the state collapsed.

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