Notes on the contributor
Dr Jama Musse Jama is an ethnomathematician with a PhD in African Studies specialising in Computational Linguistics of African languages. He has authored and edited several books. Dr Jama is known for his research on traditional African games and their potential for use within formal education. A cultural activist, historical researcher and a preserver of Somali oral histories, Dr Jama is the founder of the Hargeysa Cultural Centre and the influential Hargeysa International Book Fair. In 2018 he was the host of the 13th International Congress of Somali Studies International Association in Hargeysa. He is now the formal president of the Somali Studies International Association.
Notes
1 Under the Exchange series, translations into Somali of Anton Chekov, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Edith Nesbit and Robert Louis Stevenson were published.
* Used with permission from Ponte Indivisible Ed. – the publisher of the anthology.