Reconstruction, Reconsidered: Belonging and Urban Contestation In Mogadishu’s ‘Building Boom’

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.

Surer Mohamed is a David and Elaine Potter Cambridge Trust Scholar and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

Additional co-sponsor: Department of History