Sada Mire is selected for Hay 30 – celebrating a new generation of thinkers, supported by the CASE Foundation
Somaliland – This small country, tucked in the northwestern corner of the Horn of Africa, is a template for what is achievable on the continent.
And it’s an antidote to the constant cycle of pessimism about Africa that dominates the Western thought on the current state of the continent. How did the country move from famine, poverty, and war to a thriving and prosperous multi-party democracy?
Harper is an Africa Editor at the BBC World Service and author of Getting Somalia Wrong; Mire is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist.
Sada Mire is selected for Hay 30 – celebrating a new generation of thinkers, supported by the CASE Foundation
Friday 2 June 2017, 11.30 am Venue: Baillie Gifford Stage
About Sada Mire
Dr. Sada Mire is a Swedish-Somalilander archaeologist, art historian, and presenter whose work lobbies and promotes cultural heritage as a basic human need in times of war. Sada is the first Somali woman to study archaeology and for over a decade, she was the only trained Somali archaeologist working in Somalia and Somaliland. She is the founding director of Somaliland’s Department of Archaeology. She is also the founding director of the Horn Heritage Foundation and its Digital Museum, working on research and conservation of heritage across the Horn of Africa.
