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2. Interviewing the Interviewer: A Conversation with the BBC Somali Service's Yusuf Garaad Sheikh Omer
- Author:
- Ahmed Samatar
- Publication Date:
- 01-2011
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies
- Institution:
- Macalester College
- Abstract:
- The famous Thames River and the city of London are intimately linked. Much like Paris and the Seine or the Twin Cities and the Mississippi, London without the Thames is unthinkable. Though the river is nolonger pivotal for the transportation of goods and people, life in this metropolis still draws on the many advantages of the waterway, particularly during the late spring, summer, and early autumn seasons of the year. With more than two millennia of history and as the one-time center of the now-defunct British Empire, London has been for a number of centuries—and continues to be—a leading global city. With are markable alchemy of mutating versions of tradition and modernity, London boasts some of the most urbane populations to be found anywhere. I came of age in this dense but civilized place—a place where, for instance, taxi driving is a distinctive skill that combines exceptional courteousness and thorough knowledge of the numerous grand boulevards and the labyrinth of ancient back streets.
- Political Geography:
- London
3. The North-South Divide in Everyday Life: Londoners Sending Money "Home"
- Author:
- Anna Lindley
- Publication Date:
- 06-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies
- Institution:
- Macalester College
- Abstract:
- These views neatly capture the ambiguous feelings that soon become apparent when asking Somali Londoners about sending money “home.” A relative minority of the Somali regions' so-called “missing million” have settled in the Global North, but they provide the bulk of remittance funds. A key node in global trade and finance, London has also witnessed “globalisation from below”: by the beginning of the 21st century over one third of the workforce was born abroad. While the dynamics and impact of immigration and asylum in London are relatively well-recorded and well-researched, the fact that London is also a key source of remittances for poorer countries has only come to the attention of researchers and policymakers in recent years. The World Bank in 2008 suggested that migrants in the U.K. sent official remittances amounting to some $4.5 billion in 2006.
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom, London, and Somalia
4. A Virtuosic Touch: Hodeide, a Life with the Oud and More
- Author:
- Ahmed Samatar
- Publication Date:
- 01-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies
- Institution:
- Macalester College
- Abstract:
- He is as distinguished as any Somali of national accomplishment. Still tall with a straight back, the gait strong, the mind in full alert, the greatest living Somali master of the oud (kaman), Ahmed Ismail Hussein, Hodeide, is now nearly eighty. Like almost a million of his compatriots, he is in exile from the continuing violent misery that is the Somali Republic. It is December 27, 2007. We just ended a delicious and long lunch at one of London's best Indian restaurants, a stone's throw from the British Museum.
- Political Geography:
- India, London, and Somalia