Kenya’s ‘Somali headache’ is at the same time the country’s ‘blessing

[STOIC]

Waa Sijui

 

Much Respect to Mr.Hassan and Mr. Abdulkadir..I grew up in an era where the Kenyan Somali elites were the most uneducated back-benchers in the Kenyan parliament..I guess they were paving the way for the young and educated...So refreshing!!

[Che -Guevara]

If Kenya has a “Somali problem”, then it also enjoys a “Somali dividend"

N it's good to see Sijuis leaving their imprints on Kenya's most important document.

[Haatu]

In this situation, the Kenyan Somalis have been the “consensus” tribe. So the big nationalities fought after the 2007 elections and cannot agree on who should head the IIEC without drawing too much suspicion? Give it to Hassan, a Somali. You are afraid that some old vested and tribal interests will hijack the constitution in Parliament? Give it to Abdikadir, a Somali.

At last we're appreciated.

[General Duke]

Well done..

[Abtigiis]

In Somalia, there is no group that plays the safe holding position that Somalis play in Kenya. So they fight themselves to the death and trash their country. In fact a lot of the brutality and madness in Africa is partly down to this lack of an “outsider” tribe, which is also a minority.

 

In Rwanda, in many ways, there was the same lack of a harmless ethnic group that would be entrusted to take temporary custody of state business as the tempers cool off among the big boys. The attraction of groups like Somalis (like the mixed race populations in West Africa) is that deep down, there is a misguided but comforting feeling among the big communities that if push comes to shove, they can always be chased away and sent “back where they came from”.

 

In Africa, therefore, the country that does not have a local version of Kenyan Somalis should be very afraid.

In Somaliland, the local version of the Kenyan Somali's were Rayaale's Awdal community. Now, that the big boys are on top, the habro are going to fight it out, after the next term of Faysal passes peacefully.