SOMALI EXPAT ACADEMICS RETURN TO SOMALIA FOR UNIVERSITY JOBS – BUT FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, NOT MONEYSOMALI EXPAT ACADEMICS RETURN TO SOMALIA FOR UNIVERSITY JOBS – BUT FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, NOT MONEY
February 11th, 2023
A desire to contribute to nation-building and improve standards of universities within Somalia is luring Somali intellectuals to return home to work in academia.
Professor Abdullahi Barise, the founding president of the City University of Mogadishu, said his institutions and others were welcoming this increasing number of foreign-educated Somalia lecturers and professors.
Indeed, City University was itself established by diaspora academics and more than half of its administration, teaching and research staff comprises returnees.
Barise is one. He left Somalia ...
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