Hussein Mohammed Adam "Tanzania" ( so, Xuseen Maxamed Aadan "Tanzania") was a Somali professor, originally from

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, but born and raised in

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, Tanzania. He graduated in 1966 with his undergraduate degree from

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. Professor Hussein Tanzania gained his PhD in

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from

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and a master's degree from

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with his book "A Nation in Search of a Script". In addition to being a professor, he was a journalist and documentary maker. His most acclaimed documentary, "Limits to Submission," was about the consequences of the

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in 1977.

Academic background and publications

Professor Hussein M. Adam was a professor of political science at the

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in the United States of America, specializing in comparative politics with a focus on the

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. In the early 1970s, he served as the head of the Center of African Studies at

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. He was the founder and president of the

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(SSIA) and was the founding director of the Somali Unit for Research on Emergency and Rural Development (SURERD), an indigenous NGO in

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(1981–87). Professor Adam Tanzania was a member of the

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, the

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Council of African Advisors, and the African Association of Political Science. During his life, he was the recipient of many research awards and grants, including the Hewlett Mellon Award at

, W. E. B. DuBois fellowship, De Witt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize,

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, and the African Development Foundation fellowship. His work was published in many reputable academics' journals, including

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), and

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(

). During his lifetime, Professor Tanzania published many books and academic papers as a single author, editor and with other authors, including the following:
From Tyranny to Anarchy: The Somali Experience.

War Destroys, Peace Nurtures: Reconciliation and Development in Somalia.

Removing barricades in Somalia: Options for peace and rehabilitation.

Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the 21st Century.

Rethinking the Somali Political Experience.

The Revolutionary Development of the Somali Language.

Towards a Somali institute of international affairs.

Formation and Recognition of new states: Somaliland in contrast to Eritrea.

Somalia: Militarism, Warlordism or Democracy?

Frantz Fanon as a Democratic Theorist.

Islam and Politics in Somalia.

Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition (A Book Review).

Crisis in Somalia: Prospects for the future.
# Somali Civil Wars (Published by McGill-Queen's University Press). # Clan conflicts and democratization in Somalia.

Death

Professor Hussein Tanzania died on 14 January 2017 in

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, Massachusetts, United States.

References

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