Political Pragmatism

[DigibAc]

For a political system to work everyone can not get everything they want every time. It can’t be a zero sum game where you win or loss.

 

I remember when I was a small child my big brother and his friends would play jar kabood in the street outside our home. I would always want to be the first to play and the only winner and if I was not allowed to play first or if I didn’t win then waan banaday.

 

It seems like Somali politics is played the same way I use to play jar when I was 7.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

In Soomaali politics, it is called looma dhamo. A very familiar misused phrase, that burburiye the last 14 conferences.

 

It is either I-will-have-all-and-nothing mentality. Compromise, wadaagnimo iyo tanaasul ma jiro.