Last month, the Somaliland Journal of African Studies (SJAS) was launched with no Somali academics or researchers on the editorial and advisory boards. This raised a very necessary debate on the continued whiteness of academia, and more specifically on the production of knowledge on and about Africa. It prompted Safia Aidid to start the hashtag #cadaanstudies as a way to engage Somali academics in a conversation on the historical representations of Somalis and Somalia, and create a space for postcolonial and critical academic work by and for Somalis.
Listen to an interview with Safia Aidid here
Read Safia’s article in The New Inquiry
Check out the storify page
Join a discussion on #cadaanstudies in Toronto on May 2nd at 10:45am at York University.
