NATIONAL SOMALI BANTU PROJECT

Bantu Specific:

The Bantu-Jareer Somalis: Unearthing Apartheid in the Horn of Africa By Dr. Mohamed A. Eno

Somalia is generally thought of as a homogenous society, with a common Arabic ancestry, a shared culture of nomadism and one Somali mother tongue. This study challenges this myth. Using the Jareer/Bantu as a case study, the book shows how the Negroid physical features of this ethnic group has become the basis for ethnic marginalization, stigma, social exclusion and apartheid in Somalia.

From Mogadishu to Dixon Edited by Dr. Abdi M. Kusow and Stephanie R. Bjork

For nearly two decades, and particularly since the civil war, Somali men, women, and sometimes even children without families fled the country in droves. Some sought refuge amongst established Somali communities in the Horn of Africa, the former colonial states of England, France, and Italy, and the Middle East. Others journeyed to new destinations.
There is an article by Omar A. Eno and Mohamed A. Eno about The journey back to the ancestral homeland: The return of the Somali Bantu (Wazigwa) to modern Tanzania.

SOMALIA AT THE CROSSROADS:Challenges and Perspectives on Reconstituting a Failed State Edited by Abdullahi A. Osman and Issaka K. Souare

African Minorities in the New World: Edited by Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi

This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and accomplishments.from academic, to business, to even scientific inventions. In this book there is an article by Omar A. Eno and Mohamed A. Eno about The Making of a Modern Diaspora: The Resettlement Process of the Somali Bantu Refugees in the United States

Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean African and Asia, Edited by Gwyn Cambell.

Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia constitutes an important collection of essays dealing with the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean world, aregion stretching fron southern and eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and far Far East. There is an article by Omar A. Eno about Abolition of slavery and the aftermath stigma: the case of the Bantu/Jareer people on the Benadir coast of the southern Somalia.

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict (Kindle Edition) Edited by B. Schmidt (Author)

African Urban Spaces In Historical Perspective, Edited by Steven J. Salm and Toyin Falola

African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. There is an article by Omar A. Eno about Somalia's City of the Jackals: Politics, Economy, and Society in Mogadishu (1991-2001)

The End of Slavery in Africa, edited by Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts, the article by Lee Cassanelli, discusses the dynamics of slavery, slaveholders, labor, and the Italian colonialist involvement in the Benadir coast of Somalia. The articles is called: The Ending of Slavery in Italian Somalia: Liberty and the Control of Labor, 1890 - 1935

PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Contested Nationalism and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Somalia Edited by Abdi M. Kusow

This book represents an attempt to introduce the nation of contested national identity as a theoretical framework for understanding the crisis of the nation-state in Africa, and Somalia in particular. The contributors to the volume share the perspective that one of the principal variables that inform much of the present crisis in Somalia resulted from the simultaneous co-existence of two paradigms/narratives (lineage-based versus territorial) of Somaliness that contest the meaning of the people, place, and the history on which nationalism is predicated. The volume represents a major shift in the studyof Somali historiography in that the contributors challenge the well-know Somali assumption that a common culture can form the basis for national solidarity regardless of the social and political context/realities within which the boundaries of the nation are constituted.

Informed by this perspective, the contributors to the volume argue that the current social and political crisis in Somalia must be seen as a war 0over contested ideas and social identities, a conflict of interpretation of who has the right to define the social boundary of Somaliness. edited by Prof. Abdi M. Kusow, the article by Omar A. Eno, there is one article about Somali Bantu History "Landless Landlords, and Landed Tenants: Plantation Slavery in Southern Somalia"

In What are Somalia's Development Perspectives? Proceedings of the 6th SSIA-Congress Berlin 6-9 Dec. 1996, edited by Jorg Janzen, the article by Omar A. Eno, there is one article about resolution to oppressed people in Somalia including the Somali Bantu.

La Grande Faida, an Italian book by Martina I. Steiner, discusses the Somali Bantu.

The Somali Bantu, Their History and Culture,Edited by Director of NSBP Mr. Omar A. Eno & Deputy Director Mr. Dan Van Lehmen

Somali Sultanate, by Virginia Luling, is all about the Somali Bantu of one city, Afgoye. Afgoye is located on the banks of the Shebelli River in southern Somalia.

Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence, and Legacy of Slavery, by Catherine Besteman, the entire book is about the Somali Bantu.

In Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21st Century, Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford (eds.), there is one article about the Somali Bantu by:

1-Omar A. Eno, "The Untold Apartheid Imposed on the Bantu/Jarer People in Somalia," pp 209-220.

In The Invention of Somalia, by Ali Jimale Ahmed (ed), there are two articles about the Somali Bantu by:

1-Catherine Besteman, "The Invention of Gosha: Slavery, Colonialism, and Stigma in Somali History," pp43-62.

2-Francesca Declich, "Identiy, Dance and Islam Among People with Bantu Origins in Riverine Areas of Somalia," pp 191-222.