Urban and Architectural Design in the Somali Peninsula: Culture as Resource …

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This chapter resituates the debate on what defines the Somali
society away from security, postcolonial predicaments and current
challenges, into decolonial and indigenous strongpoints and prospects
residing with the versatile Somali culture, with the creative
articulations of life, such as found in the direct and indirect design
of places where we live. It is possible to argue that culture is what
has kept the Somali people together since the Ogaden War of
1977. It is locally the backbone of an increasingly well working
decolonial and democratic society in the Somali Peninsula, and
worldwide it brings the Somali diaspora together across borders
and relate back to the origins in the Peninsula. Culture is perhaps
the singular most important and emphatic bond of Somalis.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTheorising Somali Society : Hope, Transformation and Development
EditorsFarah Abdulkadir Osman, Mohamed Eno
Number of pages20
Volume1
Place of PublicationNew Delhi
PublisherAuthors Press
Publication date2022
Edition1
Pages61-81
Article number4
Chapter3
ISBN (Print)9789355290465
Publication statusPublished - 2022
SeriesPluriverse of Creativity: New Horizons of Planetary Realizations

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