Feisal Farah is a Teaching Assistant in History at the University of Toronto and was previously an instructor at the American University of Nigeria. He is affiliated with the Wilberforce Institute for the 快播视频 of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull and the Harriet Tubman Institute at 快播视频.
Farah has expertise in database building and specializes in the Horn of Africa, with particular focus on contemporary Somalia\u2013Kenya relations. He earned his BA (Honours) in Political Science and African Studies and his MA in History from 快播视频, Toronto, Canada.
His doctoral research at the University of Hull, England, is titled:
\u201cNot Quickly Cleansed: Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya, 1895\u20131945.\u201d
Farah has also contributed to the Boko Haram Islamic Protest and National Security Project as a specialist on Kenya and Somalia.
Selected Publications
\u2022 \u201cThe Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombasa, 1907\u20131963,\u201d in Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojo (eds.), Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: A History of Enslavement and Identity Since the 18th Century.
\u2022 \u201cAl-Shabaab, Boko Haram, The Evil Twins of the African Continent: The Historical and Contemporary Social Context That Led to Their Birth,\u201d in Paul Lovejoy and Melchisedek Ch\u00e9tima (eds.), Boko Haram and Political Distancing (Trenton: African World Press, Harriet Tubman Series on African Diasporas).
\u2022 \u201cThe Abolition of the Legal Status of Slavery on the Coast of Kenya: The Cases of Sadiki and Kiroboto.\u201d Slavery & Abolition 46, no. 3 (2025): 647\u2013670.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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