Abdi Sheik Abdi

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Abdi Sheik Abdi" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Abdi Abdulkadir Sheik-Abdi (Somali: Cabdi Sheekh Cabdi, Arabic: عبدي عبد القادر الشيخ عبدي) (born 15 November 1942, Somalia) is a Somali author based in the United States.

Sheikh-Abdi holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature and African Studies from the State University of New York and a doctorate in African History from Boston University. He has taught both in Somalia and the U.S., and is the author of numerous short stories, two novels, a collection of fables, as well as articles and essays.^[1]

• The Luncheon, 1975
• Rotten Bananas, 1979
• Arrawelo: The Castrator of Men - a Somali fable
• Divine Madness: Mohammed Abdulle Hassan (1856-1920), 1993
• Tales of Punt, 1993
• When a Hyena Laughs: A Somali Novel, 1994

This article about a Somali writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e