In this 30 minute talk and Q&A titled Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation in Mogadishu's 'Building Boom', Surer Mohamed, Scholar and Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge discusses why despite a remarkable post-war building boom and returning diaspora, Somalia's capital city remains contested. Ballooning property values and the refurbishment of public and private spaces continue to embody the politics of urban belonging, memory and violence of the past three decades.
This lecture is part of Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds Winter 2021 Online Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies Program, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. This talk was additionally co-sponsored by Department of History at the University of Washington.