Bibliographies on Somalia

Following, you will find bibliographies listing many books and articles related to Somalia. However, such bibliographies seldom contain hyperlinks to these books and articles and older books and articles are seldom available in complete versions free-of-charge over the Internet.

For each item in these bibliographies, you can perform a Search on one of the major Search Engines, by entering the 

to obtain any information that is available on the Internet for each such item. Following are a few popular Search Engines for such purposes:

If a book is still in print, you will usually be able to buy a new copy at online booksellers, such as:

You can also look for used copies or closeout copies of books at typically lower prices than the original list price, such as:

Following are the Bibliographies:

"Humanitarian Intervention in Somalia" (Perhaps the largest bibliography of books and articles on Somalia available today -- possibly not completely up-to-date -- compiled by Mr. Walter S. Clarke with his brief comments on each): http://www.gmu.edu/departments/t-po/peace/clarke/index.html 

"Somali Bibliography" at Somali Home Online ( ): http://www.somalihome.com/index.shtml?/history/bibliography.shtml 

"The Library of Professor Basil Davidson at Oriental and African Books" (A comprehensive Bibliography of reference books used by the Prof. Davidson -- unfortunately without hyperlinks): http://www.africana.co.uk/collections/basil/cat0_3.shtml 

Conflict Prevention (a large bibliography with many articles on this subject, some of which apply to Somalia): http://www.caii-dc.com/ghai/biblio.htm 

"Bibliography on African Storytelling", compiled by Jermaine Jones, African Studies Outreach, 1997 (it covers storytelling throughout all of Africa, including one article on Somalia - "The Camel in Somali Oral Traditions", Axmed Cali Abokar, Somali Academy of Sciences and Arts in cooperation with Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1987): http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/outreach/units/story-bib.html 

"Welcome to 'HYPTERTUT Read' Ancient Egypt: an Annotated Bibliography" (from the Globe Corner Bookstore, includes some hyperlinks): http://www.gmu.edu/depts/mais/student-links/apearman/read.html

"Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Bibliography of Recent Works in English": http://bentley.uh.edu/Mintz/newslbib.htm

Bibliography of the writings of G.J. Abbink (mainly on Ethiopia, some on Somali -- such as Somali genealogy): http://asc.leidenuniv.nl/publications/gjabbink.htm 

Somali Bibliography, E. J. Adjanohoun, in "Proceedings of 2nd International Congress of Somali Studies", Thomas Labahn, Edit., published by Univ. of Hamburg Verlag (was published in 1984 with a good set of references up to 1984): http://www.fao.org/docrep/t6260e/t6260e0a.htm 

Somalis -- Their History and Culture -- Bibliography, from Cultural Orientation Project (small but good selection): http://www.culturalorientation.net/somali/sbib.html 

Somali Books, from MO Multilingual Books (listing several books for learning and teaching the Somali language, for sale from this site): http://www.multilingualbooks.com/somali.html 

Somali Books, from Somali Site (a good listing, with links to Amazon.com for purchases: http://www.somaliasite.com/1032/10001032.html 

Selected Bibliography on Female Genital Mutilation, Amnesty International (without hyperlinks): http://web.amnesty.org/802568F7005C4453/0/746B2B49C4B5520E802569A5007186E8?Open&Highlight=2,circumcision 

Bibliographic Database on Female Genital Mutilation, WHO - World Health Organization of the United Nations (without hyperlinks): http://www.who.int/frh-whd/database/fgmbib.htm 

GBV - Gender-Based-Violence  Bibliography, Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium (including some for Somalia, some with and some without hyperlinks): http://rhrc.org/resources/gbv/bib/prev.html 

National Refugee Dispersal and Concentration Bibliographies - British, Swedish, & Dutch (with a heavy concentration upon refugees from the Horn of Africa, including Somalia): http://ralph.swan.ac.uk/refugeedisp/bibliography.htm 

"Focused Ethnographic Bibliography for the Cross-Cultural Sample", Douglas R. White, prepared for this webpage by William Divale, Fall 2000 (with a dozen for Somalia): http://www.worldcultures.org/~drwhite/worldcul/SCCSbib.pdf

Bantu Bibliography (short bibliography on the traditional music & Cultures of Kenya, in this case concerning the Bantus and their role in Shungwaya as a precursor to Somalia): http://bluegecko.crosswinds.net/kenya/bibliography/bantu.htm

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