The Rise of Somali Capital, an insightful article on the Somali Invasion of Kenya

[ElPunto]

^Ditto.

 

It remains to be seen what the next destination of Somali capital - hopefully back home.

 

One morning a retired judge received a phone call from her lawyer. He told her there was someone who wanted to meet her, a potential investor. More out of curiosity than anything else, she agreed to the meeting. The investor turned out to be a Somali man. He wanted to buy her house. It was in one of the most prestigious residential addresses in the city, a street that was home to Nairobi’s old money. He offered her ten times its value. She refused. She had been living there for 30 years. She knew nowhere else.

I wish ppl wouldn't do this - not only does it stoke resentments but it would likely be a poor investment. For all the talk about risk taking and Somali mercantilism - there are many who have lost in the race to invest.

[General Duke]

ElPunto, spot on. The Somali risk taking sometimes can be just for the sake of duplicating or imitating others.

[NASSIR]

Long and pleasurable read. Thanks Duke.

 

" It is only now becoming apparent what kind of abuses took place under this regime. The Wagalla massacre of February 1984, in which an estimated 4,000 Somali men were rounded up and shot , is perhaps the most egregious of the government’s acts against the Somali community. But it is by no means the only one. This was state-conducted terrorism and its main objective was to eradicate the disease of political self-determination.