Ali Jimale Ahmed

<p class="lead">Proverbs for Decolonized Consciences</p> <p>Ali Jimale Ahmed is a Somali poet, cultural critic, short-story writer, and scholar. He is Professor and former chair of Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York, where he also teaches for the Africana Studies Program and the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures; he is also on the Comparative Literature faculty at the CUNY Graduate center. His books include <em>The Invention of Somalia</em> (1995), <em>Daybreak Is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-State in Somalia</em> (1996), <em>Fear Is a Cow</em> (2002), <em>Diaspora Blues</em> (2005), <em>The Road Less Traveled: Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africa</em> (2008, coedited with the late Taddesse Adera), <em>When Donkeys Give Birth to Calves: Totems, Wars, Horizons, Diasporas</em> (2012) and <em>Gaso, Ganuun iyo Gasiinin</em> the Africana Studies Program and the Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures; he is also on the Comparative Literature faculty at the CUNY Graduate center. Big thanks to Bhakti Shringarpure for putting us in touch.</p>