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With more than two decades of advocacy and practical knowledge production, dissemination, and preservation in the Global South, the Redsea Cultural Foundation in Hargeysa, Somaliland, has officially established the Somaliland Centre for African Studies (SCAS) in 2023. The Centre is the academic wing of the foundation dedicated to asserting the space of African indigenous knowledge in the global educational discourse with the active role and recognition of African Scholars.

Its mission is to be a centre of excellence in African indigenous knowledge and methodology development whereby global scholars especially scholars of the Global South are networked for collaborative knowledge production, archiving, and sharing. Its vision is to become a leading and reputable African knowledge production, dissemination, preservation, and archival centre by 2030.

Dhaxalreeb is an academic journal that undergoes peer review prior to publication. It is published by SCAS and follows a Diamond Open Access policy. To submit an article, send it via email to dhaxalreeb AT redsea-online DOT org.

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Vol 22 No 1 - March 2026 - Special Issue edited by Clare Bath - Table of contents [Download Entire Issue in one file]

Editorial: The African Border Paradox - A Necessary Curse or a Missed Benediction? by Dr Jama Musse Jama - pp: 11-14 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0011

Introduction: Contested Sovereignties: Legitimacy, Power, and the Negotiation of Postcolonial Borders. by Clare Bath - pp: 15-34 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0015

Understanding Malawi and Tanzania Border Dispute on Lake Malawi (also known as Lake Nyasa). by Raege Omar - pp: 35-56 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0035

A Mirage of Protection: Statelessness and Legal Failures in Côte d’Ivoire. by Aimee Watkins - pp: 57-86 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0057

Review of “Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands” By Daniel K Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 2025. by Théa Klement - pp: 87-90 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0087

U.S.-China Strategic Competition in the Horn of Africa and Implications for Regional Security. by Nasir M. Ali - pp: 91-122 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0091

Citizenship as a Contested Global Caste Order: How Political Rhetoric Creates Symbolic Boundaries in World-System. by Farrah Bennet and Ana Velitchkova - pp: 123-149 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.22.1.0123



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Vol 21 No 2 - August 2025 - Table of contents

Editorial: Why Diamond Open Access in the Global South? by Dr Jama Musse Jama - pp: 13-20 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0013

If Buildings Could Talk: The Ottoman and British Architectural Legacies in Berbera and the Hidden Stories They Tell by Nasra Dahir Mohamed - pp: 21-37 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0021

Diaspora Media and Resistance: Somali Horizon and the Struggle Against Siad Barre’s Regime by Marwaad Kayse - pp: 39-60 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0039

Why I chose to rewrite Somali lullabies by Halgan Daahir Axmed - pp: 61-77 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0061

The Inner World in Cilmi Boodhari’s Love Poetry by Kidist Dorigatti - pp: 79-92 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0079

Somali Women’s Religious Poetry Through the Figure of Eve: Represent-ing the Sacred and Engaging with Tradition by Mirea Gabry Del Bianco - pp: 93-113 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0093

Documenting The Climate Change Terminologies for Somali Language Speakers by Tirsit Yetbarek - pp: 115-127 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0115

Sheikh Mahmud Suleiman and His Reflections on the Tijaniyya Sufi Order: A Study Based on His Manuscripts by Fatuma Hussein and Nuraddin Aman - pp: 129-147 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0129

Textual and Contextual Study of the Ḫulāṣah Manuscript Authored by Šayḫ Badruddīn ibn Ubbiyy on Ethiopian Indigenous Muslim Scholars by Rameta Muzeyen and Nuraddin Aman - pp: 149-181 - DOI=10.13169/Dhaxalreeb.21.2.0149



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Vol 21 No 1 - March 2025 - Table of contents

Editorial by Dr Jama Musse Jama - pp: 13-16

Reclaiming African Heritage: Chinweizu’s Decolonial Lens on Gabooye Marginalization in Somaliland by Richard Atimniraye Nyelade - pp: 17-57

For the Wretched of the Horn: Translating Fanon into Somali by Abdiaziz Mahdi Ahmed “Guudcadde” - pp: 59-63

Exploring Messaging on Climate Change Through the Somali Poetic Drama of The Poet Playwright Hasan Ganey (1982) by Nasra Dahir Mohamed - pp: 65-89

Pluricentric features of spoken Somali that resist the standardization of written Somali by Dr Jama Musse Jama - pp: 91-112

The Making of Hudeidi: Crafting an Icon of Somali Qaraami Music by Fathi Jama Dahir - pp: 113-120

‘We Have Not Seen Something Like This Before’: Cyclone Sagar and Its Impact on Livelihoods in North-western Somaliland by Moustafa Ahmad - pp: 121-146

Universities and Climate Change Research Initiatives in the Horn of Africa by Tirsit Yetbarek - pp: 147-155

Linguistic Remarks on Modern and Old Harari Languages by Abdulhamid Abdulahi Ahmed - pp: 157-165

Book Review: “Hussein Mohamed Adam ‘Tanzania’: In Honour of an Extraordinary Scholarship,” edited by Jama Musse Jama (2024) by Rooble Mohamed - pp: 167-173


Vol 20 No 2 - August 2024 - Table of contents

Vol 20 No 1 - March 2024 - Table of contents

Vol 19 No 2 - March 2023 - Table of contents


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Vol 19 No 1 - March 2023 - Table of contents

Editorial by Dr Jama Musse Jama - pp: 11-12

Rethinking the Norm by Sheila Aketch - pp: 13-27

Epistemic injustices in African Studies: Roots and Remedies by Abdifatah Mohamed Abdi - pp: 29-46

Engaging with the 'Role-modelling Dilemmas' in the development pathways debate in Africa by Tafadzwa Makara - pp: 47-58

The footprints of the Companions - A Somali short travelogue by Jama Musse Jama by Giorgio Banti - pp: 59-73

Sheikh Hojale Al-Hassen (1825-1938): Biography and Internal Policy Legacies by Nuraddin Aman - pp: 75-101

Prominent Islamic Scholars and Sites of Jimma by Nejib Raya - pp: 103-117

Book review - Insight into a Second Edition of “Jimma Abba Jifar (186-1974): Social, Economic and Administrative History” by Ketebo Abdiyo Ensene - pp: 119-123

The fading tools and occupational community: Potters of Somaliland by Tirsit Yetbarek - pp: 125-141

The secret “Language of Birds” and Somali classical music by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 143-148

Review of “Reconfiguring the Somali Nation: Changing Conversations, Shifting Paradigms” by Dr. Abdirashid M. Ismail by Tirsit Yetbarek - pp: 149-156


Vol 18 No 2 - March 2022 - Table of contents


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Vol 18 No 1 - July 2022 - Table of contents

Editorial by Dr Jama Musse Jama

Art-Centered Community Building, Knowledge Production & Sharing Platform: The Hargeysa International Book Fair by Tirsit Yetbarek

Intolerance: A Vile and Dangerous Human Attitude by Said Jama Hussein

In the Search of that Specific Manuscript by Dr Jama Musse Jama

How Can the Horn Be Stabilised? Securitisation or Investment in Development by Samuel Tefera Alemu (Phd)

a Book Review on the Novel: Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed by Abdifatah Mohamed Abdi

Rebuilding a Continent of Proud People on Africa’s Knowledge Base by Anthony Biegon, Nerisa Kamar & Dr. Jama Musse Jama

Igiaba Scego’s La Mia Casa È Dove Sono (My Home Is Where I Am) by Manishimwe Giselle Musabimana

Amir Tedina Bint Maya: The Visibly Invisible Amira of Harar by Tirsit Yetbarek

Sitaad: The Somali Women’s Traditional Spiritual Gathering by Muna Ahmed & Hamda Raage

Bibliography of Somali Studies (Boss) by Moustafa Ali Ahmed

Hargeysa Cultural Center’s Archival Cassettes by Hafsa Omer

Nabadgelyo Siciid: a Leading Scholar and True Enlightenment Thinker Passed Away Said Jama Hussein (1942 - 2022) by Dr Jama Musse Jama

Vol 17 No 2 - July 2021 - Table of contents

Editorial by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 13-15

The role and place of poetry and dance in the Somali society by Said Jama Hussein - pp: 17-19

Catching up to the global argument of research area preference: Status of Research in Somaliland by Tirsit Yetbarek - pp: 21-30

Marginalized Communities’ Perception of Child Labour: A Case Study of Hargeysa, Somaliland by Abdalqani Abdillahi - pp: 31-41

Conservation of historical religious manuscripts in Somaliland by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 43-55

A close reading of an old manuscript found in Sufi Hassan shrine in Harar by Jama Musse Jama and Abdulhamid Abdullahi - pp: 57-65

Book review: The Orchid of Lost Souls in the AroS Museum: where different art forms meet by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 67-72

Review of the Review, 13 October 2013 - A reply by Said Jama Hussein - pp: 73-73

Introducing Somali Corpus by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 75-77

Articles in Somali Language

Masraxa Soomaaliyeed: Afartan sannadood oo Dahab ku Shaqlan 1950-1990 by Cabdiraxmaan Yuusuf Cartan - pp: 79-82

Shaamareerkii Shan iyo Tobanka Cisho by Cabdixakiim Maxamuud Maxamed “Ubaxle” - pp: 83-86

Gambadhkii Amiir Cabdullaahi B. Cabdishakuur [1885-1887] by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 87-92

Caymo - gabay by Faarax Axmed Cali "Gamuute" - pp: 93-94

Waad garanlahaydeen - gabay by Saado Cabdi Amarre - pp 95-97

Macnekooxeeyaha Af Soomaaliga – Hormada 1-6aad by Jama Musse Jama - pp 99-125

Vol 17 No 1 - July 2021 - Table of contents

Muraayadda Xarunta Dhaqanka ee Hargeysa 2005-2022 by Jama Musse Jama - Editorial

Interview - Saado Cabdi Amarre by Sahra Ahmed Mohamed - pp: 2-5

Travelogue - Hargeysa ilaa Harar by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 7-11

Ziyaara to Aw Barkhadle by Abdulhamid Abdullahi - pp: 14-15

Preserving Somaliland’s Auditory Heritage by Christina Woolner - pp: 16-22

Multi-word expression in Somali: A challenging task for morphological and syntactic analyser in corpus building by Jama Musse Jama - pp: 24-31

Gaarnimada Maansada Qaasin by Ibraahim Yuusuf Ahmed "Hawd" - pp: 32-34

Academic Dialogue in Hargeysa: Knowledge production, Preservation and Dissemination Platform by Tirsit Yetabrek - pp: 35-36

ADIH Documentary Night: Case of ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage’ by Tirsit Yetabrek - pp: 38-40

HCC Library: Place of knowledge Management by Moustafa Ahmad - pp: 42-44

Xaaladdayda Maanta by Siciid Jaamac Xuseen - pp: 45-45

The Lady With The Golden Fingers by Siciid Jaamac Xuseen - pp: 46-46

GABBAL DUMAY - Gabay - Tacsidii Xasan Guure Jaamac by Faarax Axmed Cali "Gamuute" - pp: 47-47

Xasan Guure Jaamac - Aragti iyo mowqif ba nin tiisa suntaday buu ahaa by Rashiid Sh Cabdillaahi Axmed "Gadhwayne" - pp: 48-49

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