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Abdi Ismail Samatar (born 1950) is a Somali scholar, writer and professor of geography..

My research focuses on the relationship between democracy and development in the Third World in general and Africa in particular.

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    • Abdi Ismail Samatar

    Abdi Ismail Samatar (Somali: Cabdi Ismaaciil Samatar, Arabic: عبدي إسماعيل ساماتار) (born 1950) is a Somali scholar, writer and professor of geography.

    Personal life

    Samatar was born in 1956 in Gabiley in Somaliland.

    He is the brother of scholar and politician Ahmed Ismail Samatar.[1]

    For his tertiary education, Samatar earned an A.B. from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in 1979. He later obtained a MCRP in Urban/Regional Planning from the Iowa State University in 1981.

    In 1985, he completed a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

    Samatar is Muslim.[3][failed verification]

    Career

    Between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Samatar was a lecturer at the University of Iowa.[2] He later joined the University of Minnesota's faculty, serving as a professor of geography and chair of the institution's geography department.[4]

    He has authored several books centered on democra