Discussing the concepts of nomadism and cultural identity is the threshold to understanding the dynamics of the digital world. Nomadism as a concept that refers to the common traits shared by wandering individuals who lack sense of belonging to the spaces to which they move or leave behind. For a nomad, cultivating a distinct identity is a remote possibility; the personal traits and tendencies of nomads vary whenever they move because coping with new spaces is vital. Considering cultural identity both as a term and concept, it refers to communal traits cultivated by the members of a certain community/society over long periods of time. Such traits, which are transferred from a generation to another, become the definitive characteristics stamping the members of that space. The article seeks to spot the conflicting attitudes between the concepts of nomadism and cultural identity in a digital context. In the light of the accelerating societal and geopolitical changes imposed by the dialectics of the current digital realm, Deleuze and Guattari‟s standpoint on nomadism and Hakim Bey‟s concept of temporary autonomous zone are expounded to unveil the complexity of cultivating a definite cultural identity in the modern digital era. Keywords: identity, deterritorialisation, re-territorialisatin, digital, space

Slavery and human trafficking became are two overlapping phenomena that are conducive to the modern-day actual slavery acts. This precarious situation is first highlighted by a CNN news story on November 14th, 2017 when the news anchor videoed African citizens being actually auctioned to be sold as slaves, thugh the price is less than one thousand dollars. The article endeavours to expound the crisis of this modern-day slavery and underlining how bad human conditions and identity crisis in Africa are the principal factors that contribute to the rampant phenomenon of contemporary slaver.

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Nuruddin Farah’s ‘Blood in the Sun’ trilogy is a socio-political voyage into the Somali life and consciousness. It is a serious attempt to explore the changes that befell the Somali society and converted into a poor, failure and famine struck state in the present though it was a powerful and rich state in the past. The trilogy is a documentation of the history of Somalia from a philosophical standpoint; it delves into clan and ethnic traditions and, at the same time, expounds the adverse consequences of colonisation that have been invoked by the first wave of the ‘Rush to Africa’ in the nineteenth century. The article is an endeavour to underline the complex status of subalternity of the Somalis whose palimpsestic historical and political situation forced a palimpsestic identity. Farah’s ‘Blood in the Sun’ trilogy enfolds three novels; i.e. Maps (1986), Gifts (1993), and Secrets (1998) which are reflective of the current failure social and political situation which negatively influences the identity of the natives. The article hopes to be the kernel of further studies handling the complex postcolonial identity of the Somalis from a historical-political perspective.