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Representation of Somali Clannism in
Nomad Diaries: Life, War, and America by Yasmeen Maxamuud

Dr. Mansour Mohammed Ali Faraj and Dr. Ali Saleh Ahmed Al-Haidari

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Abstract

Clannism is the most important issue that has played a great role in shaping all aspects of life in Somalia. Yet, it has received little attention by scholars, policy makers, and writers who concern with Somalia: its history, culture, life, civil war, state failure, and peace- building. Therefore, the current study is an attempt to investigate and explore how Somali Clannism is represented in Yasmeen Maxamuud's novel Nomad Diaries: Life, War, and America. It, accordingly, examines clannism with a wide lens, seeking to understand how this important facet has affected the Somali society as represented in the novel under the study. In attempting such a broad theme in such a short study, this paper aims to introduce the reader to the key images of clannism. The study concludes that the Somali clannism is, first of all, represented as the main marker Somali individuals identify themselves and, therefore, it is viewed as a threat to national identity and social cohesion. It is also depicted as a form of political identity in a sense that the president Mohammed Barre established his political system on the basis of clannism. Finally, clannism is represented as the agent of destruction in Somalia after the collapse of Barre's regime in 1991 as the revolution was mainly based on clannism.

Keywords: Clannism, Somalia, clan identity, affiliation, lineage, national identity, rebellion.

Introduction

Somalia has received a great attention by scholars, historians, journalists, and researchers to examine and explore the main issues connected with all the aspects of the society: the Somalis' daily lives, personal views, outlooks and aspirations. Literature, especially poetry, has been one of the most important vehicles used not only to articulate the people's problems and social and political challenges but also to tackle their own identities as being expressed by Samatar, who considered poetry as a medium by which Somalis ask, "Where do I come from? and Who am I?"According to him, poetry, in Somalia, is not art for its sake, but art for a cause. The poet has been the spokesman of his own clan to the extent that he or she is capable of stirring up the most violent passion of his clan into a lethal war but is also capable of cooling those passions for peace.

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Dr Faraj

Dr. Mansour Mohammed Ali Faraj
Assistant Professor of English Literature, English Department
Faculty of Education-Mahweet
Sana’a University, Yemen
mansourfaraj@gmail.com

Dr Al Haidari

Dr. Ali Saleh Ahmed Al-Haidari
Assistant Professor of English Literature, English Department
Faculty of Education-Mahweet
Sana’a University, Yemen
alhaidary2008@yahoo.com
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