Articles · Vol. 7 No. 1 (2011): Africa Review of Books, Volume 7, n° 1, 2011 · Pages 10-13

5 - Is There a Solution to the Problems of Somalia?

  • Samir Amin
    Samir Amin Forum du tiers monde
    SAMIR AMIN is Director of the Third World Forum based in Dakar, Senegal. He has taught economics at many universities including Poitiers University in France and Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Amin was CODESRIA’s first Executive Secretary. He has published extensively...
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Abstract

To the best of my knowledge, Afyare Abdi Elmi’s book provides unequalled documentation on the actors in the drama of Somalia. The explanation of this drama, the decomposition of the state which has unfolded since 1991 (the fall of Siyad Barre), demands a return to the country’s history from independence in 1960 until the fall of Barre in 1991. And on this point, Afyare is terse (see page 17), to say the least...

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Author Biography

  • Samir Amin, Forum du tiers monde

    SAMIR AMIN is Director of the Third World Forum based in Dakar, Senegal. He has taught economics at many universities including Poitiers University in France and Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Amin was CODESRIA’s first Executive Secretary. He has published extensively in the fields of law, civil society, socialism, colonialism and development, particularly in Africa and the Arab and Muslim world. Some of his recent publications are: The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (2004), Europe and the ArabWorld: Patterns and Prospects for the New Relationship (2005), Beyond US Hegemony: Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World (2006), L’Éveil du Sud (2008), Sur la crise (2009).

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