Minneapolis needs Somalis and must protect them. As America ages, younger population like the Somali pop in Minneapolis will remain an integral part of its future growth. Take my own family. Although myself Californian, I have 25 Roble family members in Minnesota

DISCLAIMER: I am not saying Africans must adopt the Chinese model of Governance, I am saying Africans must ADOPT models of Governance which work for Africans!

You are mistaking what Nuruddin Farah once described as "variations of one man's whim" for a National Ministery! Equally, the term "citizens" is dropped from a "detached" angle, for walking or driving in the streets of Mogadishu requires an employment card, not a national ID!

Makau Mutua: Remarkable life of Ngugi wa Thiong’o zurl.co/Xx9Xc

Soomaaligalbeed (Ogaadeeniya) oo ay Itoobiya sharcidaro iyo guumaysi ku haysato ayaa raacidoonta jidkii Ereteriya mar aan foggayn, InshaAllaah.3/3. Gafdiid. Midha-diid Abdirizak Muhumed Abdinur Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Abdishakur

"The International ommunity and the Somali elite should consider the creation of the Somali state from Somaliland..." argued Afyare A. Elmi, (15 years ago! " I'm of this opinion now! Somaliland: A radical change? | News | Al Jazeera aje.io/dvudl via Al Jazeera English

Switzerland, Canada, and Belgium were built through consent; Ethiopia was built through force and the massacre of civilians. I have a better model for Ethiopia — it needs disintegration like Yugoslavia. Every nation and nationality should gain its independence.

Rogue Police in Kenya. This institution has never been seriously reformed. Abducting someone from Homa Bay, torturing him all the way to the central police station, smells the brutality of the colonial officers against the Land & Freedom Army, Mau Mau.

In 2025, Wiil-waal airport in Jigjiga reflects unfiltered occupation. No Somali works in the Airport. No facility in its washrooms is operational. Only the name, Wiil-waal & the landscape is yet to be erased! The Prosperity Gospel repaired not even a single bathroom!

Today, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes the recipients of the 2025–2026 HFG African Fellow Awards. The 12 scholars from across the #AfricanContinent are examining urgent and ongoing issues of violence in 10 countries. Meet the scholars: hfg.org/the-harry-fran… #AfricanFellows

Violence is, in the words of a Somali poet, a "liberating act when applied against an oppression & a folly when unleashed to oppress!" Studying the "rationalities" & the "irrationalities" of it all, is an attempt to think about ways to resolve protracted wars. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Is the sky part of the earth? Being much poorer than Arabic, English has no equivalent of the Qur'anic verse... "خلق السماوات والأرض"

A lit-up stretch of a city not by a barragge of missiles!

Was #ONLF Included in Abiy’s “Consultation” ? — A Familiar Political Deception Addis Standard’s recent report on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s meeting with opposition parties failed to mention a critical fact: the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) did not participate in this