Abdi Ismail Samatar
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Abdi Ismail Samatar's Degrees
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geography University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Abdi Ismail Samatar Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abdi Ismail Samatar is a Somali scholar, writer and professor of geography. Personal life Samatar was born in 1956 in Gabiley in Somaliland. He is the brother of scholar and politician Ahmed Ismail Samatar.
Abdi Ismail Samatar's Published Works
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Published Works
- An African Miracle: State and Class Leadership and Colonial Legacy in Botswana Development (1999) (205)
- Destruction of State and Society in Somalia: Beyond the Tribal Convention (1992) (132)
- The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884-1986 (1989) (85)
- Ethiopian federalism: autonomy versus control in the Somali region (2004) (67)
- Development geography and the third-world state (1997) (57)
- The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: the rich versus the poor (2010) (57)
- Leadership and ethnicity in the making of African state models: Botswana versus Somalia (1997) (52)
- Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia 1875-1991 (2005) (51)
- Structural Adjustment as Development Strategy? Bananas, Boom, and Poverty in Somalia (1993) (40)
- Botswana: The Road to Independence (2001) (33)
- Class and Effective State Institutions: the Botswana Meat Commission (1995) (33)
- The African State: Reconsiderations (2002) (32)
- Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, US warlordism & AU shame (2007) (24)
- Social Classes and Economic Restructuring in Pastoral Africa: Somali Notes (1992) (22)
- Somali Reconstruction and Local Initiative: Amoud University (2001) (21)
- Merchant Capital, International Livestock Trade and Pastoral Development in Somalia (1987) (18)
- The Ethiopian election of 2005: a bombshell & turning point? (2005) (15)
- Chinese–African Encounters in High‐Tech Sectors: Comparative Investigation of Chinese Workplace Regimes in Ethiopia (2018) (15)
- Social Transformation and Islamic Reinterpretation in Northern Somalia: The Women's Mosque in Gabiley (2000) (15)
- The Political Economy of Livestock Marketing in Northern Somalia (1988) (14)
- Somalis as Africa's First Democrats: Premier Abdieazak H. Hussein and President Aden A. Osman (2002) (11)
- Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen (2016) (10)
- Debating Somali Identity in a British Tribunal: The Case of the BBC Somali Service (2011) (9)
- The Predatory State and the Peasants: Some Reflections on Rural Development Policy in Somalia (1985) (8)
- Somalia's Post-Conflict Economy: A Political Economy Approach (2007) (8)
- The miracle of Mogadishu (2006) (7)
- The State, Agrarian Change and Crisis of Hegemony in Somalia (1988) (7)
- Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism and Regional Autonomy: The Somali Test (2005) (6)
- The Political Economy of Livestock Marketing in Somalia (1988) (5)
- The state, peasants and pastoralists : agrarian change and rural development in Northern Somalia, 1884-1984 (1987) (5)
- Somalis: Africa's First Democrats (2002) (5)
- Africa: Beware of Obama’s Second Term (2013) (4)
- Somali Studies: Towards an Alternative Epistemology (1989) (4)
- Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa: A Regional Approach: The Role of Intellectuals and Scholars (2006) (3)
- National Institutions for Development: The case of Botswana (2012) (3)
- Transition and Leadership: An Editorial (2008) (3)
- ‘Fate Worse than’ artificial borders is the insidious African elite politics: the Somali case (2019) (3)
- The early morning phone call: Somali refugees' remittances (2011) (3)
- Africa's First Democrats (2016) (2)
- Botswana: Comprehending the Exceptional State: Reconsideration (2002) (2)
- Foreign intervention in Africa: from the cold war to the war on terror (2015) (2)
- Somali Tradition, Peripheral Capitalism and the Politics of Development (1989) (2)
- The Horn of Africa and Arabia (1990) (2)
- Social Decay and Public Institutions: The Road to Recovery in Somalia (1992) (1)
- Book Review: Seeing like a state: how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed (2001) (1)
- Review of Leaf of Allah: Khat & Agricultural Transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia 1875- 1991 by Ezakiel Gebissa (2005) (1)
- Empty Bowl: Agrarian Political Economy at Cross Roads and the Crisis of Accumulation: From Catastrophe to Renewal? (1994) (1)
- Ethnicity and Federalism in Somali Ethiopia: What Autonomy? (2006) (1)
- Destiny Worse than Artificial Borders in Africa: Somali Elite Politics (2020) (1)
- Continuity in US Foreign Policy in Africa: Antithesis of Freedom & Democracy. (2008) (1)
- Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana (review) (2010) (0)
- Review of Seeing Like the State by James Scott (2001) (0)
- Review of Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams, and Sermon by Abulkader Tayob (2000) (0)
- Review of The Horn of Africa edited by Charles Gurdon (1997) (0)
- African perspectives on US policy toward the continent (2007) (0)
- The Horn of Africa (1997) (0)
- Review of Agrarian Reform in Ethiopia by D. Rahmato (1987) (0)
- Review of Rural Communities Under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa by Jonathan Barker (1991) (0)
- Review of Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana by Kenneth Good (2009) (0)
- Good Kenneth. Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. African Issues Series. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, N.Y. x + 182 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $27.95. Paper. (2009) (0)
- Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective by David Turton (ed.) (2007) (0)
- The Islamic Courts and the Mogadishu Miracle: What Comes Next for Somalia? (2006) (0)
- Human encumbrances and African vulnerabilities (2012) (0)
- Faithless Politics as Fratricide and its Alternative in Somalia (2009) (0)
- An Agenda for Action (2005) (0)
- Review of Botswana: the Road to Independence by Peter Fawcus and Alan Tilbury (2001) (0)
- The Differential Impacts of Structural Adjustment on African Agriculture: Banana and Rice Production in Somalia: Technical and Human Perspectives (1994) (0)
- Transition and Leadership (2005) (0)
- Review of Rural Development and the State: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Developing Countries edited by David Lee and D. P. Chaudri (1986) (0)
- Somalia: Investing in Shared Institutions and Values: Conflict in the Horn of Africa (1999) (0)
- The International Crisis Group Report on 'Somaliland': advocacy not impartial analysis (2006) (0)
- The tribal reconstitution of the Somali state: a cruel hoax (1994) (0)
- The Charter (Draft): A Compromise Proposal by the Harmonization Committee (2003) (0)
- For the Record: International Crisis Group Report on Somaliland: An Alternative Somali Response (2005) (0)
- Warlord Games: Africa (2000) (0)
- The Nature of the Somali Turmoil (1989) (0)
- Ethiopian Ethnic Federalism and Regional Autonomy (2004) (0)
- Cultures of Hunger, Spaces of Death: The Ethiopian Famine (1985) (0)
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