Mohamed Abdulkadir Ali

Mohamed Abdulkadir Ali, a peace activist and human rights advocate, is the founder and director of the Iftiin Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Somalia that aims to develop innovative ideas and solutions to foster peace in fragile states. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Harvard International Review, and The Guardian. (June 2020)

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An African’s Education in Being Black in America

In Somalia, we knew African Americans only through popular Hollywood movies, like Rambo and Rocky, in which they were the comic sidekicks or inept villains. They were peculiar, alien caricatures to us.

June 18, 2020