Resurrecting the Land of Milk and Honey

[Somalina]

The Diaspora

 

A group calling itself Somali-Intellectuals established a new e-group confined to the so-called Somali Intellectuals. They probably mean well but this is not the first effort. All previous efforts ended up in failure. A Somali Intellectual these days is an Oxymoron. Allow me to twist a poem by the famous Somali poet Cali Dhuux, “Aqoonyahan Dhugo, Dhankaagaa dalkaa looga soo dhacaye”. The fact remains that if there were Somali Intellectuals, we would not be in the mess we are in today. A University degree does not qualify one to become an Intellectual. I know that I am not. I know of illiterate Somalis who are more worthy of the title.

 

I have a suggestion for these intellectuals. Form a permanent crisis group or think-thank that is qualified to diffuse potentially explosive situations in the country instead of relying on foreigners to resolve our problems. The group should have the capacity to travel to Somalia on short notice to pre-empt the kind of situations that can prolong the suffering of our people. Instead of fruitless debates on a Constitution that Togane labeled as any Oxymoron when he coined the phrase,” Klan and Constitution”, they need to muster the courage to travel to Somalia and challenge the leaders there with constructive ideas that can help us extricate ourselves from the influence of foreign meddlers.

by Ali H. Abdulla

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[Timur]

The writer behind that article fails in the same regard as the predecessors he's referring to.

 

We should stop treating Somalia like a legless victim we keep tending to. If we want to fix Somalia we'll have to do more than just "leave on short notice" to mediate between petty tribal disputes, we have to stop the tribal disputes period. In order to fix Somalia we have to abandon the West and go back, ACT like Somalis rather than functioning as the Black counterparts to the hundreds of European mediators and NGOs in the country.

 

In 2015 when I have completed my current tenure, I am moving to Somalia to work in resource management and logistics. If we get enough Somalis doing what I plan to do, we will have no problem in the future.