Farah Bakaari (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Her research focuses on African literatures of 20th and 21st century, postcolonial studies, political theory and the novel as well as the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Her writing has appeared in Global Networks, Journal of the African Literature Association, Representations, Africa is a Country, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She was born and raised in Somaliland.