The Rebirth of the Somali Intellectual

[QansaxMeygaag]

To Paraphrase Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones:

 

Original:

 

The arrival Uptown, Harlem, can only be summed up by the feelings jumping out of Cesaire’s Return to My Native Land and Fanon’s Wrenched of the Earth , or Cabral’s Return to the Source. The middle class native intellectual, having out-integrated the most of integrated, now plunges headlong back into what he perceives as blackest, native-est. Having dug, finally, how white he has become, now, classically, comes back to his countrymen charged up with the desire to be black, uphold black, etc a fanatical patriot!

 

Somali version:

 

The arrival in Mogadishu/Kismaayo/Galkacyo/Hargeisa, Somalia/Puntland/Jubbaland/Somaliland, can only be summed up by the feelings jumping out of Cesaire’s Return to My Native Land and Fanon’s Wrenched of the Earth , or Cabral’s Return to the Source. The middle class Somali intellectual, having out-integrated the most of integrated [into their Qurbaha societies], now plunges headlong back into what (s)he perceives as Somali-est, miyiga-est/my clan-est. Having dug, finally, how non-Somali/de-clanized (s)he has become, now, classically, comes back to his country(wo)men/clans(wo)men charged up with the desire to be Somali, uphold the interests of clan X, etc a fanatical patriot [and a qabyaalist]!

[Safferz]