Sada Mire, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sada Mire

Somalian archaeologist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Hargeisa

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist, africanist

Nationality: Somalia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sada Mire (born 1977) is a Swedish-Somali archaeologist, art historian and presenter who currently serves as assistant professor at the faculty of archeology, Leiden University.
She is a public intellectual and heritage activist who has argued that cultural heritage is a basic human need in her 2014 TEDxEuston talk.
In 2017, Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts selected Mire as one of their 30 international thinkers and writers.
She is the only active archaeologist working in the Somali territories, including Somaliland, a self-declared state in the horn of Africa, where she became the Director of Antiquities in 2007.
Originally from the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Mire fled the country at the start of the civil war at the age of 15.
She then traveled to Sweden seeking asylum.
She has since returned to the Horn of Africa as an archaeologist, making some notable discoveries.