Samson Bezabeh

Samson A. Bezabeh, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was previously a Research Fellow at Makerere University, Post-doctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and has been affiliated with the University of Bergen, the University of Exeter, and Addis Ababa University. His research interests include diaspora studies, state- society interaction, colonialism, religion (Islam and Orthodox Christianity) as well as issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and class in Africa. His article, “Citizenship and the Logic of Sovereignty in Djibouti,” published in African Affairs, won the journal’s African Author Prize. He has finalized a book -length study that describes the interaction between Yemeni diaspora, states and empires in the Horn of Africa. The monograph is published by the American University in Cairo Press: http://www.aucpress.com/p-5239-subjects-of-empirescitizens-of-states.aspx. Currently, he has finalized a new book length monograph that focuses on the political history of Djibouti.