Reddit reviews Xadka Riddada Maxaa Ka Run Ah? (Somali Edition)

> 1. in the financial sector, to create a bank in Somalia right now the legal requirement is $5 million. Someone can make a very strong financial institution quickly and provide services to the public to break the vampire isgarsiis conglomerates

What are you talking about we gave away our economic sovereignty to get some IMF loans we are not allowed to dictate our own monetary policy how do you expect them to then service the people?


> 3. In economical sector land in the countryside is cheap. The price of hal neef is like $50 and hal geel last I heard was $650. There is no factories or major fishing. With little bit of investment capital, a lot can be done.

The greatest illusion African leaders inculcated to their citizens is the phantom of foreign investment a spirit we must attract by offering our lands and blood to it
We don't need investment we need freedom!
Our Fishers need to fish from the Somalis seas without competition from foreign fishing companies (which our government sold it to)
Our farmers need protection from foreign imports and subsidies to buy fertilizers
Our pastoralist need grazing land which our great tribes are hoarding
Our students need education that doesn't indoctrinate them but one that inspires them to think for themselves


> 5. In Deen, because of the extremists violence, the traditional authority of the conservative wadaado caste has been undermined. That has created space for different ideas on Islam. Ironically, there is probably more diversity in the religious believes of the society today than ever before.

The opposite is true there has been gradual homogenization of Religious doctrine from various Sufism and shafism to full blown Wahhabi/Salafism
Do you remember in 2014 when well known Nairobi based Somali scholar wrote book titled Xadka riddada maxaa ka run ah about apostasy laws in Islam he merely suggested with support of hadith and sunnah that we shouldn't kill those who leave Islam the whole Religious establishment went crazy they ostracized him he eventually fled for fear of his life to Australia


> 6. In social field, many tribes, because of the older nobility are passing away, the new generation is very young (Ugaas in their 20s and 30s), they are open minded and educated, good people can get to them much easier.

So we shouldn't abolish the caste system we call Qabiil?
That's shortsighted and regressive can't you imagine a future Somali society without Qabiil?

> I agree with your analysis, but I think the best way forward is to take over the existing institutions and build them into positive way. It is not practical to try to build from scratch. Why create a new system when we can take over the existing system?

State Failure that has been tarred to the Somali reputation can be found all over the African Continent - I can argue that every African state has failed it's people
Because we naively assumed our glorious leaders would lift us from poverty and underdevelopedment instead our liberators since the 60's have sold out their people failed them and we need to ask ourselves what happened why did the African States with immense potential fail so miserable

If you come to same conclusions that I came to which is that the state and capitalism are inefficient and illegitimate modes of social organization then it would only make sense to create better more democratic more just institution which would be beholden to it's people not the elites of the country and foreign investors.


> Which brings me to another point. The evil people also know that the Somali society is in flux and they are trying to take over the institutions.

Evil people we call our dear presidents and prime ministers there are no nefarious foreign conspiracy to bring Somalia down but it's our own government and the elites trying to make a profit of of our misery.

> Good people should be joining the military now before it is totally taken over.

Taken over by whom? As far I see the SNA is clan militias dressed up to serve the interest of the clan leadership
Instead of ordering the US to stop bombing our people into oblivion the government could bring about real conciliation and peace if they wanted to but since if peace was ever to happen the biggest excuse for mismanagement and expropriation of state funds would disappear and the masses would turn against them - so terror is useful tool for our state

It is a known fact that our states uses the terrorism menace for its own ends, to give you an example few months back Farmaajo govt engineered the Baidabo elections so their candidate would win when more popular candidate robow was poised to win they even went as far as to order the AMISOM to fire at Somali protesters (11 died) but who cares about them we have to fight against terrorism only when those guys do it right? not when our guys do it - there is a word for it its called hypocrisy.


I am sure they talked nicely to the cameras but what have they done - often the opposite what they claimed to do.


Edit: spelling