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  • Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
  • 08 April 2026, Dr Francesca Baldwin
  • Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…...

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  • Enslaved Poets
  • 19 October 2026, Víctor Goldgel Carballo
  • Whenever I mention that I’ve just written a book on slavery and literature in Cuba in the nineteenth century, the conversation almost immediately turns to the The post Enslaved Poets first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....
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