*Ibtisam;753205 wrote: A Diaspora boy tired to buy a drink from this shop with a fridge- a local relative of his saw him and told him to buy from inadheerkii opposite who didn’t have a fridge. He got a sprite and it was so hot it burnt his throat. The Diaspora in his broken Somali said- haadan fahmey qabil wa kulel! honestly! this seems a tad bit too good to be true. i doubt this even happened.

the diaspora vs local dichotomy is distorting the reality. we're all somalilanders and thats whats important. some diaspora folk think they are 'better' than people who they've aptly given the name 'local'. this is just offensive. i can tell you from my interactions with both outsiders and people in somalilander, that i've had a better time with reer somalilanders as opposed to these rude, offensive, culturally insensitive, western-rejects qurjo-joog animals.

what are you learning, adigu?

note to self: never ever put trust in a somali woman.

Dwele is the epitomise of the neo-soul movement.

sxb, i dont live with them whites anymore, got my own place now. left the university and now pursing a igo-based career path lol.

^no! sarah is mohamed the watchman's wife. you see i live alone and they're the closest thing i have to a family.

NGONGE;752545 wrote: Funny you should say that! Isn't a bit of a coincidence that he left the country at exactly the same time those supposed "illegals" were kicked out and now that the dust has setteled he's back in? i'll have you know that i lobbied on behalf my oromo workers. I got paperwork for mohamed and sarah and now we're one big happy family.

nuune, all in a day eh? i mean its hard work but someone has to organise things somaha? i do plan to get married after my last engagement was sabotaged. i travel overland from hargeisa to addis once. the route is very long but the road is in perfect condition but its a slow ride. i didn't go through dire dawa but the harar route and it was long.......those dirty ethios closed the windows of the minivan for fear of catching TB loool. it was stuffy and i felt sick and couldn't breathe...

so, it seems like faheema heeded my advice and got out of the rat race. i'm very happy for you my sister. no more slaving away to make last months expenses eh? haha.

NGONGE;752532 wrote: ^^ Hello Mr Run-away. What happened to our "date"? I'm now tempted to come all the way to H town to make you fulfill your promise. lol@Ng, you're more than welcome to come to hargeisa anytime.

lol@juxa, what a pathetic statement by 'someone' of your calibre and personal integrity. what do you mean 'accept you'?

good morning Ng, hope all is well with you. how is life these days?

you should be ashamed. you saw a frail old lady and didnt think to help. that tells me you're no different from the immoral chinese whose love and worship of materalism has made them morally bankrupt.

tragic! i fear for the chinese people, their morals are disintegrating.

Juxa, why do you want to come to somaliland? i guess we'll need to have a vetting process in place lol. only those diaspora with good benevolent intentions should be allowed to come to somaliland. we've already seen the get-rich-schemers shamed and terribly fail at their attempts to make profits from this small yet ambitions nations. immigration to Somaliland by the diaspora should cease immediately. we don't want their type here.

NGONGE;752158 wrote: ^^ I know I sometimes get a tad delusional but I have not reached the stage where I believe myself to be a moving vehicle, Malika. Yes it was on the pavement and my hip hurts now (a few inches either way and I would have been "riding" that bike myself). you don't think it was politically motivated?

Zimbabwe is moving ahead with a new "indigenisation" law, known as the National Community Trust, which will force foreign companies to hand 51 per cent of shares to black Zimbabweans. Impala Platinum, a South African-owned company, has already agreed to turn over a 10 per cent of its stake in its Zimbabwean Zimplats operation. In September the government threatened to take away the company's licence to mine the world's second largest platinum reserves. More companies are expected to follow but some fear that the law is a plan to help strengthen President Robert Mugabe's hold on the country ahead of possible elections in 2012. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another black economic empowerment in the making? Very positive news from Zimbabwe.

Jacaylbaro;752143 wrote: Wlc Back ..... cheers JB, we should have coffee one of these days. its been ages since we last met in person.

nuune;752105 wrote: I need to see your boarding pass, and a live video on your Youtube Channel, joking, What happened to the London wedding, sxb you'd never believe it, but i went to london for the wedding lol. a close and personal family member was tying the knot, as it were. man, these days it take ages to get to somaliland. i took qatar airways from london to doha then to dubai. from there i got on dallo airlines to djibouti then to hargeisa. almost 24hrs. it was exhausting to say the least. but very glad to be here and it gives me an enormous sense of joy to be back in hargeisa.

yeah!

Arrived this morning to a heroes welcome. ah... so glad to be back 'home', where the weather is awesome and the people amazing. this young demoracy will surely benefit from my benevolent endeavours.

very positive.

Residing in London, the medically trained Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Nigerian immigrant working as a taxi driver and a hotel concierge, but he still lives on the edge of poverty. He shares a room with Senay (Amà ©lie's Audrey Tautou making her English-language debut), a Turkish refugee who works as a maid at the hotel. As illegal immigrants, Okwe and Senay live in fear of being deported. One night, working at the front desk, Okwe receives a call from prostitute Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) to check a broken toilet, where he makes a horrifying discovery. He reports it to the manager Sneaky (Sergi Lopez), who blackmails Okwe into staying quiet about it. Okwe soon discovers the presence of a shady business operation that sends him into the seedy London underworld. Senay becomes lured in with hopes of being able to fund her escape to America.

Carafaat;751625 wrote: I agree about ridiculousness of the term. How else should we call the non-Western music? i suppose the superior western promotion, marketing and distribution system will always overshadow world music. western cultural imperialism is dangerous and seeks to subsume other cultures under this 'globalisation façade'. it appears the farther a countries is from western centre of gravity, the more its been ethnicised. music must always be considered in terms of place of origin and no matter how 'cultured' one might be, one must understand that'll always be barriers of entry into other cultures. listening to malian music, doesn't make you more familiar with malian culture, it just means you like listening to malian music and nothing else. westerners seek to have insights into other cultures through the arts. music of non-western countries shouldn't called 'traditional', 'ethnic' or any other words which might seem derogatory.