Sada Mire gives the Leiden ASA Annual Lecture The Importance of a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of the African Past The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) held its second Annual Meeting on Thursday 8 December. Leiden University has some 120 scholars...
Sada Mire’s Lecture launches RAS/UCL series: Heritage and Politics In this special lecture launching the Politics & Heritage series organised in collaboration with UCL, Dr Sada Mire will discuss the politics of colonialism and nation-building and its impact on...
Dr Sada Mire is currently the only active archaeologist working in Somalia today. After decades of colonialism, civil conflict and poverty, significant sites of importance in Somalia, both architectural and cultural, have been left to ruin. With her local team, Mire...
Sada Mire presents ‘Cultural heritage: a basic human right’ Sada Mire is a Somalian archaeologist. She lived the first fifteen years of her life in Mogadishu, until 1991, when she settled in Sweden, as a result of the conflict in north-east Africa. She is founder and...
