Jama_Mohamed_Ghalib
Jama Mohamed Ghalib (Somali: Jaamac Maxamed Ghalib, Arabic: جامع محمد غالب) was a Somali writer, former military leader and police chief, and politician from Erigavo, Somaliland.[5] He hails from Eidagale a subdivision of the Garhajis Isaaq clan.
He was a major general in the army of the Somali Republic,[6] and was later appointed the Police Commissioner of the Somali Democratic Republic.[7] Ghalib also held various ministerial and cabinet positions in the government of Somalia, including Secretary of Interior,[8] Minister of Labor and Social Affairs,[9] Minister of Local Government and Rural Development,[10] Minister of Transportation,[6] and Minister of Interior.[7]
After his retirement from politics, Jama wrote on Somali history.[11] He taught history, political science and public administration at universities in Mogadisho, including City University, Mogadisho.[12]
- Somali Phoenix
- The Cost of Dictatorship: The Somali Experience
- Who is a Terrorist?[11] (First & Second Edition 2002 & 2005, respectively).
- Defending History,[11] which was published in 2005.
- Taariikhda Soomaaliya Xog-ogaalnimo 2020.