Pan-Somalist Discourse and New Modes of Nationalist Expression in the Somali Horn: From Somali Poetic Resistance to Djibouti’s Gacan Macaan
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Abstract
This chapter explores the evolution of nationalist discourses in the Somali Horn through the expression of Somali musicians, poets and a Djiboutian band, Gacan Macaan (“Sweet Hand”). After first exploring how the development of musical expression tracked with the rise of Pan-Somalism in the late colonial period, I look at the way that Somali poets in the 1960s and1970s began to deconstruct the notion of Pan-Somalism – a universalist, clan-transcending political ideology central to the anti-colonial independence project. I then explore the impact this critique had on Gacan Macaan who, by the 1970s used their artistic productions to articulate a different type of anti-colonial, nationalist agenda in Djibouti. I draw on Gilroy’s Black Atlantic and Amselle’s Branchements to make sense of the ways post-nationalist cultural productions may be used for nationalist ends, and argue that greater attention be paid to the interplay of local historical developments and transnational cultural flows.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".