<cite> @Oz said:</cite> hello ya'll Still in Hargeisa "MaRx" hi Oz, ii waran aboowe? it's been ages since you posted on here. hope all is well. how's the weather down under? i was talking to my Aussie friend recently about the possibility of moving to Perth.....and he said it's not so bad. saas miyaa? so daa warka, abti.

<cite> @Nin-Yaaban said:</cite> Alpha is still going strong....ii waran sxb. Iyaamahan mawada hadalno (xarash miyaa leysku hayaa, mise waa la'iska xiisa dhacay). Maxaa cusub, warka soo daa. Maxaa isku dhacaayo, maxaana kala dhacayo. After SoL went to this new look, it got boring and weird. I sent couple of complaint PMs to LSK iyo Admin (like they ever listen), so i dont come here a lot anymore. Once a while. hey Nin-Yaaban, how are you? i hope you're in the best of spirits, inaar. i've been busy, you know. i very much welcome this. lots has been happening. i've now got a real afro. apparently, i won't be cutting my hair until the crook Silaanyo vacates the presidency. i can't stand that man, ruunti. i'm finding myself spending less and less time online these days. i wonder why? i've also been travelling extensively. last week, i went to Aw Barkhadle, 20km north of Hargeisa. you wouldn't believe me, if i told you, i was harvesting for aloe vera, somaha? SOL is FINISHED. we know this and i expect Admin knows this. you needn't waste time conferring in private with folks who've basically sold-out. it's futile. the site has a commercial aspect to it these days and i feel it ashamedly appeals to outsider folks. not real Somalis with real opinions. i guess that's the nature of the world these days. anyways, what have you been up-to? any new developments in your life?

Saffz, have you had a chance to learn Af Amharic yet? unless you speak the language of these notoriously suspicious people, your opinions are really worthless.

this is a gimmick and a waste of resources. these Somalis have probably never herded goats before. they are just eating the mashruuc. of course, when interacting with any animal, it is important to develop a certain kind of presence, or focus; and goats are no exception. unfortunately these refugees don't have the presence or a focus herding goats in Utah.

<cite> @galbeedi said:</cite> 6- Alpha, single, doesn't want to grow. what exactly do you know about me, abti? hora loo sheegay. ************* marku yimado war bu ku sida, marku ka sii socdo na war ba ka si siida. waad af dilaacsatay ee keep your opinions of folks to yourself and stop spreading fitnah. cheers.

a little silly that the ministry of aviation is located in futo baciiid near the airport. the ministry of sports ought to be moved to dhaanta arabka because the football stadium is located there, you know. while they're at it, they ought to move rural affairs to the miyi and the fisheries ministry to berbera to stop the importation of reer xamari fish imports. the Kulmiyetrocy Zionist Criminal Regime is a joke. their ''wax qabad'' efforts are getting more and more ridiculous. they're not impressing anyone with these aesthetically poor buildings.

Sisi won the elections with 96% majority but something like 47% of the electorate didn't bother voting. caajib.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLNHQ9BoBI&hd=1

Saffz, have you meet someone yet?

<cite> @Wadani said:</cite> lol, Nin-Yaaban how am I weird? oi dabaqa dhexe boy, its so obvious you're middle class ee naga daa ciyarta, abti. lol

i wonder what sorts of produce they farm? kudos to these Somali-Bantus for being an example worth following. mabrook.

Circa 2065 : Age of Africa’s gatekeepers Today’s young African adults—‘digital natives’— have begun looking to Africa’s own existing potential to solve problems and propel the continent forward. The new knowledge systems they are creating will make the Africa of 2065 independent of foreign burdens and confident in its own momentum. Predictions are risky but necessary, and could promise a certain percentage of fulfilment, especially when drawn from rational analysis; available evidence and emerging trends indicate that the generation that will be in charge of Africa’s social, political and economic action spaces circa 2065 will be a knowledgeable generation. With the rise of the Internet and the direct access to news from eyewitnesses, young Africans can afford to shun the misinformation presented as facts by Western and other media about Africa, and instead build on the reality they know. With the rise of the Internet and the crumbling of the impenetrable walls of Euro-American libraries, which previously locked out hundreds of millions of knowledge-hungry Africans, knowledge, as packaged by the West has been demystified and adjudged incomplete. Africans will begin to search out and revalidate their own indigenous knowledge, and explore homegrown approaches to advancement. Young Africans committed to the advancement of the continent are asking questions of their elders and demanding answers from the world. In the place of answers, Africa’s young people have uncovered ignorance in their elders and have come face-to-face with scorn from the outside world. Young Africans’ teachers and parents are lacking the wisdom needed to address the myriad of challenges facing the region; so are the United States, China, World Bank, United Nations, CNN and other representations of global hegemony. Therefore, many of the responses to the inquiries of present-day young Africans will be self-taught and self-deciphered, and in them will lay the rock-solid foundation for the coming generation that will rebuild Africa based on internally generated knowledge, processes and systems. The majority of the inhabitants of Africa are not yet rising with the so-called ‘Africa rising’ because at present, the real, homegrown and people-centered knowledge the continent needs to transform its institutions and sectors is lacking. On what foundation then will ‘high rise’ Africa rest? Africa cannot rise outside of authentic African knowledge generated by committed, curious and dedicated Africans. Nations whose civilizations have germinated and endured were built on authentic national values and knowledge systems, well located in ideas selectively borrowed from other nations. Japan’s transformation began during the Meiji era and with the mantra ‘Western technique; Japanese Spirit’. Western ideas were scrutinized against authentic Japanese knowledge and needs and selectively borrowed or rejected. In India, Mahatma Ghandi impressed it strongly upon the hearts and minds of his countrymen that mental independence must form the basic foundation for the political independence being clamoured for. The whole nation of over a billion people focused on that truth during and after the liberation struggle. In fact, quite a bit of what has been scientifically researched and authenticated as Western knowledge today can be traced to folklore and indigenous knowledge of Europe. This ranges from the governance systems to pharmacology, architecture and geography. The stability being experienced by the aforementioned countries can be directly traced to the grounded knowledge system upon which innovation, creativity and advancement are founded. Africa’s current struggle lies in the absence of the liberal utilization of its authentic ideas in the development of the continent, but the digital natives and the generation they will raise will change that. Western knowledge was introduced to sub-Saharan Africa with a package that included disdain for authentic African ideas, processes and systems. The curriculum that was designed by the West for Africa came with a clearly defined, if subtly hidden, message that knowledge, creativity and innovation belonged to the West alone. Since then, Africa’s generations up until the immediate digital natives have been lacking in access to a wide platform of knowledge necessary in order to transform their minds and society. But fifty years from now, Africa’s young people will have learnt from their elders who are currently the digital natives that no knowledge in the world is better than one’s own knowledge. That an educated mind is that mind that can decipher solutions to the challenges of his immediate environment using easily accessible materials. Today’s digital natives are trying to scratch through the surface of the gold mine that is Africa’s own knowledge system, but the generation they will birth will ‘beat them hands down,’ in fact, they will ‘not see the back of their children’ in creativity and innovation. True, from Nairobi through Kampala to Lagos, young Africans are already developing software, forming organizations and building structures based on what they know to be the need of their environment, rather than what they are taught or are being taught in their schools. But wait until the children of the present teenagers and under-30s come of age. By 2065, the generation mentored by Africa’s digital natives would have taken the continent to far greater heights in terms of innovation and creativity in different sectors. To an analysis of a few key sectors we now turn. TECHNOLOGY Africa’s technological needs would have been addressed to a large extent in 2065, not by the much hyped and consistently failed technological transfer, but by homegrown solutions. African trained engineers would have utilized indigenous knowledge-based, homegrown and therefore inexpensive and easily accessible mechanisms to address Africa’s energy, water and even access road challenges. The Mining and extractives sectors, for instance, will no longer be left in the hands of foreigners and big businesses. The same way Internet publishing has freed writers from the clutches of global publishing conglomerates, so shall Africa’s extractive industries be freed from the suffocating hold of multinationals. Simple, locally fashioned equipment will surpass and outperform the imported expensive machinery that had been used by foreign corporations to hold the continent hostage for several decades. AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT Some young Africans unable to find jobs are shunning the disdain of their parents for cultivating their own food, and throwing themselves fulltime into agriculture. As they browse the Internet with their phones in the different areas where they are located, they are bound to come across websites extolling the virtues of organic farming. Puzzled, they will wonder why their government is promoting the use of synthetic fertilizers as against the organic farming their great-grandfathers practised while living to ripe old ages. The next generation of African farmers will not only begin to explore indigenous farming techniques but will be open to combining them with knowledge selectively gained online from India, China, the ancient Inca civilization and the modern American farmer. The result will be a variant of knowledge that is rooted in reality, but enhanced by foreign inputs. The same goes for animal rearing. After having lost relatives and friends to cancer and other diseases traceable to Western food processing and preservation techniques, Africa’s young people, although still craving the progress of the West, will hunger for and explore the wisdom of their fathers who lived strong till good old ages. A foundation laid by knowledge gleaned from the past, combined with homegrown and selectively borrowed foreign technology, will make plant and animal farming in Africa a widely advanced and innovative sector. GOVERNANCE The high cost, unfamiliarity with, and therefore failure of Western copied and other imported governance strategies in Africa is well documented. The colonial generation up until the present generation is at wit’s end on how to bring about effective governance without going cap in hand to the World Bank and other developed countries and their agencies. The result is a continued dependence on these nations whose coffers are steadily running dry and who are now looking to Africa for natural resources to sustain their global positions. But this will change. As young Africans begin to control their resources more and to study other successful systems, there will be the tendency to denounce and depart from the present unworkable governance system under which the continent is laboring. Inexpensive and homegrown knowledge-based governance mechanisms will be designed and instituted across Africa in the coming decades. Rwanda is a country that is already leading the way in instituting several indigenous knowledge-based and homegrown strategies to bring about effective governance and public administration at the grassroots and central levels. Rwanda’s indigenous justice system, the Gacaca, has achieved what no Western-based justice system will ever even dream of achieving. Other successful indigenous knowledge-based systems practiced in Rwanda include the Ubudehe, Abunzi, Umuganda, and Girinka, to mention few. Rwanda’s successes in efficiently maximizing its scarce resources by resorting to well-known, understood, appreciated and therefore inexpensive indigenous strategies to manage its affairs is already being studied by other African nations and will most likely be adapted by the next generation. The gatekeeper generation will understand that governance systems are very much dependent on the people who are being governed and therefore must be generated from among them, and not superimposed from some other society’s experiences. HEALTH Africa’s health in terms of diseases could take a turn for the worse. With the rise of sexually transmitted diseases among the younger generation, and a penchant to snack on Western foods and to sip fizzy drinks while browsing the Web or playing video games, perhaps there is need for alarm for the generation of 1965. But improved hygiene and access to preventive information will reduce deaths from diseases such as malaria. On a brighter note, however, the inability of Western medicine to treat several diseases has rekindled interests in traditional medicine. African young people will be able to subject traditional medicine to tests and verification and offer such remedies to mankind. However, intellectual property rights and the rights of communities will become a huge question that must be addressed in order to ensure an all-inclusive benefit for traditional medicine. TRADE AND INVESTMENT Africa’s gatekeeper generation will liberate the continent from the shackles of the agreements that had held Africa back for decades. Several agreements signed by their predecessors in ignorance will be revoked and renegotiated on terms that will be hugely beneficial to the masses. Intra-African trade will be at its highest since it last thrived in precolonial times. With the dismantling of tariff and non-tariff barriers, the increasing role of regional economic blocs and the possibility of a single-currency continent, a united Africa will speak with one voice in global affairs and explore areas of mutual benefits among member states, while shutting out powers of exploitation. EDUCATION Every sector listed above depends on education to succeed. The challenge with Africa’s educational system is that it lies firmly in a curriculum filled with irrelevancies and misinformation. Fifty years after colonialism ended, African countries still depend on consultants from the former colonial masters to review the dependency-inducing curriculum handed over to them during the eve of independence. Even when Africans themselves have to review the curriculum, it is based on a made-to-measure approach that relies almost exclusively on foreign and therefore ill-fitting knowledge. It does not seem that African governments are willing to transform the curriculum in the next ten years, but that notwithstanding, present day digital natives are independently searching for knowledge and trying to explore the world; that will be the greatest legacy they will leave for their next generation – they will be remembered as the gatekeepers of 1965. CONCLUSION The author did not set out on a pretentious effort to present an accurate and exhaustive analysis of the Africa of approximately 2065. If at all, the article only presents a table of contents for what trajectories can be explored in trying to understand where Africa could be in the next fifty years. Suffix it to note that Africa has not been immunized against the rest of the globe; the region will also be affected by emerging realities including the rise in incidents of terrorism, cybercrime, sexual predation and perversion, social upheavals and perhaps rising global inflation rates. These things Africa must prepare for and adequately guard against in cooperation with other nations of the world. But in all, Africa’s hope for the next fifty years lies in the right kind of knowledge that, from every indication, will be generated by and from the digital natives and their descendants. * Chika Ezeanya blogs at www.chikaforafrica.com You may follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/chikaforafrica ---------- http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/91920 ---------- caadi maha. i'll probably be an 80 year old African dictator.

Is there light at the end of the tunnel for the ‘Dark Continent’? ‘Making predictions is hard. Especially about the future’, said the famous American baseball player, Lawrence ‘Yogi’ Berra facetiously. Likewise, predicting whether there is light at the end of the tunnel in 2050 and beyond is hard. Especially about the Dark Continent. Making predictions about Africa based on the facts of the last half century will surely make one a doomsayer. Not looking in the rear view mirror would make one a soothsayer. I am neither. As a political scientist, I am grudgingly guided by the reputed ‘founding father’ of ‘modern’ political science, Nicolo Machiavelli, who instructed that ‘Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.’ Machiavelli took a dim view of the human capacity to learn from mistakes. He must have believed man is doomed to incorrigibility. As a lawyer, I take cue from Jean Paul Sartre who unabashedly declared, ‘“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.’ Sartre was preempted by his intellectual forbearer Jean Jacques Rousseau who proclaimed, ‘Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.’ Are Africans condemned to be free and live under the rule of fair and just laws; or are they damned to perpetual slavery in the service of African tyrants who are themselves enslaved by their former colonial and neocolonial masters? In making predictions about the future of Africa mid-century, I am guided by two questions: Is Africa’s ‘future history’ determined by its ‘past history’, or is it yet to be written by free Africans yet unborn? Will the cradle of mankind become the graveyard of freedom and human rights in 2050 and beyond? I shall use neither a rear view mirror, a crystal ball nor mathematical models to predict Africa’s future. I will leave that to the professional futurists and turbaned seers. I choose to look into Africa’s future as a ‘political lawyer’, a human rights advocate looking through the opaque prism of justice, freedom, rule of law, equality and other such sublime virtues. The question for me is not whether demographics, economics, sociopolitical change, the environment, and human development factors will shape and determine Africa’s future in 2050 and beyond. These factors are unquestionably decisive. My concern is how the rule of law and good governance in Africa can avert the doomsday scenarios of socioeconomic, political and ecological collapse in Africa. There is an old Ugandan saying which cautions, ‘If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.’ Where is Africa going in the next 50 years? Will Africans take Mandela’s long walk to freedom and prosperity as they march to 2050 and beyond, or find themselves caged in a poverty and tyranny trap and self-destruct in an Armageddon of ethnic strife, sectarian warfare, corruption and uncontrolled population growth? Will Africa be the Promised Land for Africans in 2050 and beyond or remain a newer unkinder and un-gentler version of the ‘beggar continent’ that it is today? Will there even be an Africa as we know it today in 2050 and beyond? Is it an exercise in futility to even venture to make predictions about Africa? The (Machiavellian) political scientist in me whispers prophetic words of doom and gloom in my ears. ‘Africa emerged from the colonial tyranny of the white man only to be trampled by the tyranny of the black man. Over 50 years of independence, Africa has fallen into a bottomless vortex of dictatorship, corruption, poverty, war, ethnic strife, famine and disease. It will be Apocalypse Africa in 2050. Africa will remain chained in Plato’s Cave where she can see only shadows but never light. It will be the end of times. Africa has no future.’ The defense lawyer in me whispers prophetic words of optimism and exuberance. ‘Africa’s future is bright as the sun. Tyranny will be swept into the dustbin of history in the inexorable march of freedom across Africa. Dictatorship will inevitably be replaced by genuine multiparty democracy; injustice and inequality vanquished by the rule of law; corruption will evaporate in the sunlight of transparency and accountability; prosperity will grind down poverty; peace will prevail over war; ethnic strife will be overcome by ethnic harmony; famine will be consigned to oblivion by plenty; and ignorance will be banished by enlightenment. There is bright sunlight at the end of the tunnel. The rule of law will replace the rule of evil men. It will be the beginning of times, a new epoch in African history.’ So here are a few audacious ‘predictions’ for Africa in 2050 and beyond as ‘calculated’ by the political scientist and the lawyer. The Political Scientist: Africa’s principal problem in 2050 and beyond will be famine and starvation, or ‘food insecurity’ as the international poverty pimps conveniently call it. By 2050, Africa’s current population of 1.1 billion is estimated to increase to at least 2.4 billion. Nigeria’s population of 174 million will increase to 440 million. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Ethiopia, in particular, with an estimated fertility rate of 6.0 children per woman in 2011, is projected to vault from 13th to seventh on the list of most populous countries by 2050, tripling in total population from 91 million to 278 million. In 2050, Africa will find herself in a ‘“poverty trap’(intergenerational poverty perpetuated by bad governance and economic mismanagement) and a ‘Malthusian cage’ (population growth will outstrip food supply). Africa will be unable to increase food production and will implode from runaway population growth. The ‘population bomb’ will finish off Africa by mid-century. The Lawyer: An estimated 70 percent of Africa’s population today is under 35 years of age. The youth bulge will likely persist through the middle of the century. Improved education for Africa’s youth and changing youth aspirations and values will reduce the traditional large family size. The younger generation will adopt effective family planning practices and birth control measures and delay child bearing. Africa’s youth will take advantage of innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities. They will take control of the helm of government and practice good governance as part of their value system. Africa will have genuine multiparty democracies with functioning independent judiciaries and legislatures, a free and independent press and civil society institutions and regular free and fair elections. Africa will be the breadbasket for the world with abundant fertile land and water on the continent. Africa’s best days are yet to come! The Political Scientist: George Ayittey observed, ‘Africa is poor because she is not free.’ In fact, Africa is not poor. Africa is the richest continent in terms of natural resources. Africa is poor because her leadership is morally bankrupt. Africa’s leaders are scraped from the bottom of the barrel. Despite alleged runaway economic growth in Africa (‘seven out of the ten fastest growing economies in the last decade are African’), often trumpeted by the international poverty pimps and indolent Western media parrots, poverty shall persist as an inescapable fact of life for the descendants of the 85 percent of Africans who today live on less that USD1 per day. In 2050, poverty and disease will reduce the average African life expectancy to no more than 37 years. Africa will remain trapped in the poverty and tyranny trap. The Lawyer: The coming generations of Africans will rescue Africa from the poverty and tyranny trap. They will not be addicted to Western aid. They will forswear the culture of beggary. They will use their knowledge and technological sophistication to solve problems and liberate Africa from the poverty trap. They will take responsibility for their own failures. They will not blame colonialism, imperialism, communism and all of the other ‘isms’ for Africa’s failure. They will stand proud and self-confident. They may not be able to solve all of Africa’s poverty problems but they will surely solve Africa’s bankruptcy of leadership. They will pull up Africa out of its poverty and tyranny trap by its bootstraps. The Political Scientist: It is written that ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Africans today are perishing by the millions in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Mali, Chad, Somalia and elsewhere. Africa is cursed by visionless (benighted and blind) leaders. The Mo Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership, the largest annually awarded prize in the world (USD5 million over 10 years, and a lifetime endowment of USD200,000 per year), has been given out only three times since it was established in 2007. The awardees have come from Mozambique, Botswana and Cape Verde. None of the ‘new breed of African leaders’ sanctified by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair made the cut. The leadership bankruptcy in Africa will economically bankrupt Africa in 2050 and beyond. The Lawyer: By 2050, Africa’s leaders will be proactive and not as reactive as their forbears. They will be well-educated and trained (in contrast to the benighted and corrupt ignoramuses who hold the reins of power today). They will plan to avoid problems instead of muddling through problems after the problems have become insoluble. They will be flexible and adopt to new circumstances. They will listen to their young population and act to meet the needs and desires of their generation. They will be open-minded, open to change and resourceful in solving and anticipating problems. Africa’s leaders in 2050 and beyond will be honest, transparent, accountable, self-confident, creative and inspirational. They will be guided by Mandela’s prescription: ‘It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.’ The Political Scientist: ‘Africa is a continent of failed states. Africa is a failed continent.’ So say many in the Western media. The euphemism of failed and fragile states is used to hide the truth that African states are actually thugtatorships, kleptocracies and corruptocracies. The African state is a glorified criminal racketeering organisation for the elites to rip off the national treasury and resources. Nowhere on the planet does one find more corruption, political and economic mismanagement and human rights violations than on the African continent. By 2050, nearly all African states will be failed states or ‘thugistans’ ruled by thugtators. Few African states will be able to deliver the most basic political goods to their citizens. Few states will have legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens; almost all African states will be held in contempt by their citizens and others. The African state will be an object of contempt and derision throughout the world. Recently, US Senator John McCain said, ‘I wouldn't be waiting for some kind of permission from some guy named Goodluck Jonathan’ to go into Nigeria to search and rescue some 300 girls abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram. Goodluck Johnathan has yet to deploy significant military assets in a mission to search and rescue the girls. The US has sent troops and drones to ‘help’ the Nigerian military rescue the girls since Nigeria cannot do it on her own. Such has been the fate of the ‘Giant of Africa’. Likewise, when the Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire and Mali faced internal strife, they called in their former colonial masters to save them from themselves. By mid-century, Africa will be fragmented into bite size ‘thugistans’ (more than one hundred bite size countries under the rule of thugtators, warring warlords and mercenaries). Africa will be transformed from a continent of failed and fragile states to completely flopped states by mid-century. The Lawyer: Africa will complete her transition from dictatorship to democracy by mid-century because she is condemned to be free. Much of Africa in 2050 and beyond will be like today’s Botswana (I deplore and condemn the displacement and ‘resettlement’ of the ‘San’ people (“Bushmen”) by the Motswana government). They will have free and fair multiparty elections. African countries will take the democratic path like Ghana and South Africa, led by the cheetah (young) generation. There will be robust institutions including independent courts, professional civil servants and civil society institutions. The rule of law will be institutionalised and human and property rights respected. Africa’s newer generations will be raised in a culture of openness and tolerance. They will condemn the culture of impunity and corruption that has kept the continent at the tail end of the community of nations. As Africa’s enlightened youth begin to control the destiny of the continent, they will reject the benighted ways of the preceding generations. By mid-century, Africa will have made up for its democratic deficit by greater and more effective and widespread use of communication technologies. Africa’s youth will join with the worldwide youth community and spearhead unprecedented change throughout Africa. They will have the knowledge, wisdom and technological sophistication to solve Africa’s problems not only with borrowed ideas but also original ideas rooted in African cultures and societies and dreams. Africa’s long, cold and hard winter of tyranny, poverty and discontent will be made glorious by a bright and gleaming African Spring by mid-century. Looking through a glass darkly at the Dark Continent, it is impossible to see light at the end of the tunnel. The fog of tyranny, corruption and abuse of power that shrouds the continent is impregnable to light. The miasma of uncontrolled population growth, unmanaged urbanisation, endemic corruption, cataclysmic income inequality, catastrophic climate change, ceaseless brain drain and cyclical conflict and strife is blinding. Yet, I am certain as the sun will rise tomorrow that there is a bright future for the Dark Continent in 2050 and beyond. I, free from the trappings of profession and occupation, am a die-hard optimist about Africa’s future. It is in my nature; after all, I am a utopian Ethiopian. There is not light at the end of the tunnel for the Dark Continent. There is a bright African sun! * Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino and is a practising defense lawyer. ---- http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/91925 ---- interesting article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEUw1t8RcZ0&hd=1

i was middle class once, before i became Somali. maxa xal ah?

<cite> @Saalax said:</cite> Interesting anaylsis. Kulmiye was a forced alliance to begin with, it was bound to break up. Already large amounts of Musa Bixi supporters started to hate Siilaanyo and vice versa. If Siilaanyo runs for second term as a Kulmiye leader it is unlikely that he will have their full support. saas miyaa?

MAY 2014 - Hargeisa Livestock Market ^ this is one of the best pics i've ever taken.

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> "Qabiil is not important" yet you went nuts when you were called "habar haraadan" :-D I wonder if habar dugaag is that old lady from hawd and bari. habar dugaag doesn't exist. the following do. habar haraadan = burao - suuq bari only habar qalooc = old lady from hawd and bari ila yare galbeed = western maroodi-jeex arab dhan dhagax = baligubadle etc etc etc

<cite> @Khayr said:</cite> Your premise that Arabs don't consider us Arab citizens in their lands and therefor; they are worse, is invalid because it assumes that Arabs and say in this case, the Colonial Brits, are making the same claim - claim of citizenship and equality. Arab nations and in particular Gulf nations don't promise you citizenship and becoming their equals. On the otherhand, the Brits have promised citizenship and equality to all those that migrate to their country and "empires" as a whole. There is an inherent hypocrisy with the latter. inaadeero gacaliye, wa si wanaagsan. thanks for that grasping for breath sort of explanation. what does Jamal want?

<cite> @Tallaabo said:</cite> Maashaallah, waa qoloma inantu :-D i was called reer 'habar haraadan' during rush hour this morning. i called the prick reer dugaag several time brovs. anyways qabil is not important but it's about time somebody teaches these vermin a little lesson about morality and about what it's like to be a decent, upstanding member of a society!

<cite> @Cadale said:</cite> lol walahi. holla at me on fb :lol: is this a qudbo sireed arrangement? i might have to do a thread dedication for your marriage, innit. congrats brov.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> A Somali Muslim who moves to South Korea and becomes a citizen and then obtains the Korean passport, will never ever be a Korean, no matter what. They couldn't care at all about his passport. He's not Korean. He never will be. The same goes for Britain what about a Somali Muslim? will he/she ever become an Arab?

<cite> @Cadale said:</cite> Wag1 inaar. It's good to hear everything is going good bruvs. I'm doing quite good as well very busy planning to get married soon Inshallah. inaar, naga daa bahasha......?????