Aside from clan, please also take in to account that certain communities are largely agro‐pastoral whereas others are largely nomadic with distinctively different cultural, linguistic, social structures and political cultures. And fact is that Somali political culture might have been largely influenced by Nomadic communities where competition for hegemony is inherently part of the socio-cultural dynamics . Meaning that the ‘game’ of politics played in Mogadishu might be closer to the Nomadic game of ‘geel dhac’ of Mudug and than the agro-pastoral game of ‘istunka’ as played in Wanlaweyn and environments, despite the proximity of one another to Mogadishu.