Politics as a profitable business : patronage, patrimony, predatation, and primordial power in contemporary Somalia

This article offers new insights into the nature of politics as it is played out in contemporary Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. It both examines and offers solutions to the multilayered, multifaceted, and multidimensional factors hindering Somalia in its attempt to properly reconstitute itself as a viable State. Based on five-month's research fieldwork in Somalia (May-September 2015), the article argues that the political crisis and the...