Somalia: Poetry, nationalism, and al-Shabaab

In early October 2023, a popular young poet, Nageeye Ali Khaliif, went missing from his home in Mogadishu. Within days of his disappearance, he released online a document containing many of his poems and the immediate contextual background that gave rise to each poem. By the end of this almost 300-page document, he clearly states his decision to join al…