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The Somali Youth League constitution: a handwritten Arabic copy (c. 1947?) from the Ethiopian Security Forces Archives in Harär

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  • Ghazi Abuhakema
  • Tim Carmichael

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The group founded in 1943 as the Somali Youth Club (SYC) and reorganized in 1947 as the Somali Youth League (SYL) dominated Somali politics for decades, yet has been subjected to little focused scholarship. This article briefly summarizes the SYL's history; reproduces and translates an Arabic copy of the party's constitution which is housed in the Harärgé branch of the Security Forces Archives in neighboring Ethiopia; and comments on the problematic nature of the document's Arabic. This version of the SYL constitution is part of the SYL's history in Ethiopia, as well as the group's changing and poorly understood relationships with the Addis Abäba government and Ethiopia's security forces headquarters in Jijjiga and Harär.

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  • Ghazi Abuhakema & Tim Carmichael, 2010. "The Somali Youth League constitution: a handwritten Arabic copy (c. 1947?) from the Ethiopian Security Forces Archives in Harär," Journal of Eastern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 4(3), pages 450-466.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjeaxx:v:4:y:2010:i:3:p:450-466
    DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2010.517415
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