Acclaimed/Famous Somalis in your Community

[Alpha Blondy]

Wadani;924297 wrote:

NGO buzzwords and gobbledegook get on my nerves. Do u work for one of those parasites in disguise Alpha?

NO i DON'T....you'd think a ''aniga og-conscious-back-to-the-roots-Afrocentric'er'' will work with aid agencies and christian missionaries?

 

[Wadani]

Alpha Blondy;924301 wrote:

NO i DON'T....you'd think a

''aniga og-conscious-back-to-the-roots-Afrocentric'er''

will work with aid agencies and christian missionaries?

 

Rageedi

[Alpha Blondy]

why'd you ask......if you're going to reply like that?

 

[Wadani]

How many NGO's would u say operate in Hargaysa? And how is their work (or leck thereof) perceived by the general populous? Do people realize that it's nothing but a mashruuc mostly manned by self-interested failures who couldn't make it in the corporate and political worlds of the West, along with a smaller group of bleeding--heart leftist wackos, whose dreams of bringing about a utopia in African villages are quickly shattered by the beaurecratic and funding-centred (read profit-centred) nature of these NGO's?

[Alpha Blondy]

Wadani;924310 wrote:

How many NGO's would u say operate in Hargaysa? And how is their work (or leck thereof) perceived by the general populous? Do people realize that it's nothing but a mashruuc mostly manned by self-interested failures who couldn't make it in the corporate and political worlds of the West, along with a smaller group of bleeding--heart leftist wackos, whose dreams of bringing about a utopia in African villages are quickly shattered by the beaurecratic and funding-centred (read profit-centred) nature of these NGO's?

these are questions that have no known answers. there are many known NGOs. this much i know. there are also known NGOs, that is to say, i knowingly know of these NGOs, but not as i know a known NGO. but there are also many unknown NGOs which are also unknowingly known as NGOs, these are the NGOs i don't know.

 

[Wadani]

Gartay

[Haatu]

He does work for an NGO.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Former president Sheikh sharif can be added to the Minnesota list

[Safferz]

He left Boston University?

 

Ayaan Hirsi lives in the Boston area, unfortunately.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Yea his fellowship is over. Now he is doing another program at a university in Minnesota.

 

Ayaan lives in Boston? Interesting I thought she lived somewhere in Europe.

 

Enlighten us saffy on the acclaimed T dot residents

[Che -Guevara]

SomaliPhilosopher;907263 wrote:

Virginia

Mohamed Ali Samantar (Former Somali PM/Warlord)

Are you bowing to pressure or you sincerely think the PM was warlord?

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;955744 wrote:

Yea his fellowship is over. Now he is doing another program at a university in Minnesota.

 

Ayaan lives in Boston? Interesting I thought she lived somewhere in Europe.

 

Enlighten us saffy on the acclaimed T dot residents

She's married to and has a child with Niall Ferguson, who is a Harvard prof. Wadani covered some of the Toronto folks earlier in the thread:

 

Wadani;907688 wrote:

Toronto has a lot of famous singers such as,

 

Jubba

Xasan aadan samatar

Birimo

Saynab Laba-dhagax

Nakruuma

Dalays

Abdi-Jabbaar Al-Khaleeji

I'm sure K'Naan must have a Toronto home, too. It's difficult to decide who is "famous" though, but we certainly have prominent Somalis in Toronto.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Do my views matter Che? Anyways I wrote that as I saw it as a familiar title ascribed to him.

[Che -Guevara]

I wouldn't ask if your views didn't matter. Just what qualifies him as warlord?

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Che,I have heard stories from both sides regarding the man. I personally haven't formed a conclusion about Samatar. Warlord may not have been an appropriate title. It was written as I found it as a widely circulated title ascribed to the man at the time.