Hitting fire with a stone.
“Dab iyo Dhagax Lays-kuma dhuftee Kala dhowraay: Kala dheer Labaduye Kala dhowraay.” Education and Politics: A classmate of mine asked me a difficult question in my intermediate school. “Am I not the best in our class? The most intelligent (farid in Somali) and if anybody is asked who is the best in our class, […]
Witness to Crime, The History of Somali Cultural Violence
Somali cultural violence came to world attention in the early 1990s when General Mohamed Siyad Barre’s regime was overthrown and Somalis started slaughtering each other. As I was in the United States while Somalis were doing this butchering, I remember some of my colleagues and co-workers asking me, “Why are you guys killing each other? […]