Resources

Links to institutions, journals and archives that exist and can be checked. Everything on this page was verified on 11 August 2026; entries that could not be confirmed were removed rather than rewritten.

Institutions

• SOAS, University of London — African Languages, Cultures and Literatures Section.
• Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — includes the Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften.
• Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University — where Dr. Kapchits began Somali in 1964 and defended his dissertation in 2000.
• Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences — Moscow, founded 1959.
• Department of African Studies, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University — Somali is among the languages taught.
• African Studies Centre Leiden — host of the 4th Cushitic and Omotic conference (April 2003), where the paremiological experiment was reported.
• Center for African Studies, Ohio State University — has run a Somali language programme since 2006.
• African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota — Somali language courses.

Associations

• Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) — founded 1978, organiser of the international congresses of Somali studies. The association has no website of its own; the page linked here is the account kept by the Hargeysa Cultural Centre.
• African Studies Association — USA.
• International African Institute — London.
• Association of African Studies Programs — the North American programmes and centres.
• The Nordic Africa Institute — Uppsala.

Publishers and Journals

• Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press — the imprint devoted to the Horn of Africa.
• Northeast African Studies — Michigan State University Press.
• Journal of African Languages and Linguistics — De Gruyter.
• Journal of African Cultural Studies — founded at SOAS in 1988 as African Languages and Cultures, under its present title since 1998.
• African Studies — Taylor & Francis.
• Journal of Somali Studies — Adonis & Abbey, published since 2014.
• Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship — published by the University of Vermont through vol. 38 (2021), open access since vol. 39 (2022). Vol. 25 (2008) carried “Variants and Variations of Somali Proverbs”.
• Oral Tradition — open access, Harvard University.
• Vostok (Oriens) — the journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published since 1955; known as Peoples of Asia and Africa until 1991.

Language Archives and Databases

• Ethnologue — languages of the world.
• OLAC — Open Language Archives Community — a union catalogue of language resources.
• ELAR — Endangered Languages Archive — now at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
• DOBES — Documentation of Endangered Languages — the archive of the Volkswagen Foundation programme, held at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen.
• Smithsonian Folkways — recordings of traditional music.
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage — the convention and its lists.

Somali-Language Media

• BBC Somali — broadcasting since 1957.
• VOA Somali
• Radio Dalsan — Mogadishu.
• WardheerNews — the site that published the 2006 interview with Dr. Kapchits.