A POLYVALENT MEDITERRANEAN, or the trope of nomadism in the literary oeuvre of Igiaba Scego and Abdourahman A. Waberi

I argue that novelists Igiaba Scego and Abdourahman A. Waberi, building on the work of Nuruddin Farah among others, engage the trope of nomadism so as to propose a pre-colonial imaginary of a Somali polyvalent cosmopolitanism as a possible tool for thinking through our contemporary geographies of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East