Faya Dayi Discussion Guide

This guide is an invitation to dialogue. It is based on a belief in the power of human connection and designed for people who want to use Faya Dayi to engage family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and communities. In contrast to initiatives that foster debates in which participants try to convince others that they are right, this document envisions conversations undertaken in a spirit of openness in which people try to understand one another and expand their thinking by sharing viewpoints and listening actively.

Discussion Guide Author, Safia Aidid

Safia Aidid is an interdisciplinary historian of modern Africa and an assistant professor of history and African studies at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD from Harvard University. Her research addresses anticolonial nationalism, territorial imaginations, borders, and state formation in the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on modern Somalia and Ethiopia. She is currently working on a book entitled Pan-Somali Dreams: Ethiopia, Greater Somalia, and the Somali Nationalist Imagination.

Discussion Guide Producer:

Courtney B. Cook, Phd | Education Manager, POV

Copyeditor: Natalie Danford