Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis is a Somali scholar specialising in Somali studies and African studies. He is a doctoral fellow in Leadership Studies (with Security and Development) from the African Leadership Centre (ALC), part of the School of Global Affairs at the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy of King’s College London; with an MLitt in Modern History (with emphasis on African Studies) from the University of Oxford; MPhil in Leadership Studies from King’s College London; M.A. in Anthropology and History (with emphasis on African Studies) from the University of London (Goldsmiths); MS.c. in Organisation and Development Studies (with emphasis on Development Studies and Political Science) from London Metropolitan University; and a Higher Diploma in Media Law (with emphasis on the Scottish Law) from London School of Journalism (LSJ). He read philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). His doctorate entitled, ‘Unpacking Authority and Militarism in Africa: The Politics and History of Leadership in Somalia’, examined the emergence of military leadership in Somalia through the prism of colonialism and post-colonialism. His M.Litt. dissertation entitled, ‘Founding, Forming and Formulating a Nation: The Genesis and Genealogies of Modern Somali Nationalism, 1887-1920’, explored early colonial and mid colonial periods to interrogate the emergence of national consciousness in Somali society. His MS.c. dissertation entitled, ‘Between Struggle and Survival: The Status and Position of Women in Somali Society’, dissected the contemporary interplay between the patterns of (trans)formation(s) and gender development in the Global South, with a special focus on Somali women. Graded with a Distinction, the dissertation was concerned with the conjunctions of socio-political movements during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, as well as the politics and poetics of peace in (post)-‘civil’ war Somalia. His M.A. dissertation entitled, ‘Encounters and Interactions: The Qadiriyya Tariqa and the European Colonial Powers in (and Beyond) the Somali Territories, c. 1884-1935’, was also graded with a Distinction and investigated comparatively contrapuntal contacts between the Sufi Turuq and the colonial states in the northern and southern Somali territories and Tanganyika/Zanzibar (present-day Tanzania) during the late in the nineteenth- and early in the twentieth-century. His legal work included a thesis entitled, ‘When the Common Law Goes against the Customary Law: The Distinction and Disparities between Media Law in Somalia and Scotland’ from London School of Journalism (LSJ). He locates his research work at the intersection of state systems and structures that shape societal changes. In the past, he has written on cultural, historical, intellectual, legal, maritime, political, social and security aspects of Somalis. As the author of numerous research work (both academic and policy-oriented), he has contributed to several book chapters on Somalia, Africa and the wider world (the last being published by Cambridge University Press). His other scholarly work has been published in such prestigious peer-refereed academic journals as African Affairs, African Identities, Africa Today, African Security, African Security Review, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, African Renaissance, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Northeast African Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Méthod(e)s: African Review of Social Methodology, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Cahiers d'études Africaines, Journal of Somali Studies, Conflict Studies Quarterly, Contemporary Security Policy, Third World Quarterly, Journal of International Women’s Studies and The Northern Mariner. A frequent guest analyst for the BBC Africa, BBC Somali and BBC World Service, he also contributes to several Somali newspapers and websites, including the BBC Somali and The Conversation, he publishes both English and Somali languages. Since 2013 onwards, he has also the Country Expert for Djibouti and Somalia (including Somaliland) at the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) in the Department of Political Science of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He was the lead researcher at peace-building research project run by King’s College London in partnership with the University of Nairobi. He constantly acts as an expert adviser to several immigration court cases (both asylum and refugee cases) in the U.S. and the UK and his testimony has informed immigration rulings. He has served as an expert consultant to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), an advisory non-departmental public body that scrutinises the UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) for the British Parliament, as well as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Ingiriis has recently acted as a historical consultant for major media productions, including a Netflix documentary on Black Hawk Down.
Supervisors: Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin and Dr Olawale Ismail
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Supervisors: Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin and Dr Olawale Ismail
Phone: +447940777715
Address: King’s College London, Strand London WC2R 2LS UK Chesham Building, Room 12B, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2L, Bush House North East Wing, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG, Room 2.15
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Based on previously unused religious and secular sources, the thesis determines that, even though Somali nationalism began as a reaction to imperialism/colonialism, Somali nationalists were mostly realistic in their approach to the imperial and colonial questions. In examining Somali nationalism through cultural, diplomatic, military/warfare, social and political history, the thesis explores how Somali nationalism engaged with imperialism and colonialism and how this influenced intellectual ideas and political activities of Somali nationalists. To distinguish the different types of Somali nationalism, while underscoring the connections and disconnections between various forms of nationalisms, the thesis incorporates the Islamic religion and the Somali clan system into the political entity of nationalism among Somali society. The thesis contends that the intersection between nationalism and clannism was not as strict as previously depicted, insofar as they peacefully clashed and competed but also calmly co-existed and cooperated. Framed within the broader question of who first midwived nationalism, the thesis charts new avenues for historical investigation of the politics of Somali nationalism. It challenges the established position that modern Somali nationalism in the Somali Peninsula arose as a result of post-World War II politics. By giving due attention to the plurality of pre-War Somali nationalism shaped by countless cooperating and competing religious and secular nationalist movements, the thesis establishes that Somali nationalism pre-dates World War II by several decades. This finding unsettles the dominant historiographic narratives of the post-war politics concerning the synchronic aspects of Somali nationalism. While there were religious and secular dimensions to the earlier nationalist discourse about the politics of nationalism, the thesis finds that returning to the genesis and genealogies of Somali nationalism awakened and inspired the post-war Somali nationalists who came to contest over the politics of nationalism on the basis of secular and religious lines. By questioning the dominant forces of secular nationalism, the thesis presents a distinctive perspective of Somali nationalism radically at odds with the singular nationalistic narrative of a hegemonic, overarching post-colonial power. However, the thesis does not intend to displace previous works on Somali nationalism, but rather complements them by broadening the scope of the historical exploration. Rather than depict Somali nationalism as one singular politic (as was the case in previous studies), the thesis argues for a pluralistic politic of Somali nationalism whose players consisted of diverse groups, both religious and secular in orientation. By giving due attention to the plurality of Somali nationalism, the thesis provides an important contribution to the scant scholarship of Somali nationalism. It also contributes to pluralising the history of nationalisms in general, concluding that the enduring legacies derived from Somali nationalist debates and discourses cannot be understood without deeper and dual historical analysis.
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