Nor it's cultural, It's not like we can't create beauty. We have ancient history with beautiful architectural buildings. But what is wrong with this generation. I think it's primarily to do with over religiousity. Clearly other Muslims have style but we doin too much? lol (3/3)
I think there is this aesthetic austerity displayed in almost all levels of Somali society. You can go to any Somali community mosque in UK or South Africa you find the style, i think we are too obsessed with the hereafter to beautify this world. (1/2)
Literally any Somali house you visit there is the same quasi religious posters, names of Allah. That terribly curtain that is bought from the same supplier in Dubai. Utterly dull furniture. Absolutely no symmetry. It's nothing to do hygiene or cleanliness.. (2/3)
Mathew bryden, the bane of the Somali Twitter political sphere. If you read the reactions you would think he single handedly is behind all the troubles in Somalia. In fact He is just a think tank dweeb who has no power.
Ethiopian state media aired an interview with Matthew Bryden, referring to Somalia as a failed state and Somaliland as a stable democratic country.
It looks like Matt and Rashid Abdi are working for Abiy Ahmed's government, but Somalia is far from failing, regardless of some resentful IIGU SHUB group with vendetta against the Somali government.
This does not surprise me at all. All culture is usually created by people in the lowest echelons of socio-economic strata. Those often are minorities.
Just think about the most famous Somali artist and what clans were they from?.. it's quite self-evident.
An incarcerated man donated all $17.74 of his 13-cent-an-hour janitorial wages to help civilians in Gaza.
Then hundreds donated to him.
https://t.co/SvZxt5LgKd
Perpetuating the historical fallacy that it was ordinary Somalis who destroyed Somalia, rather then state elites racing to the bottom. I am sure our President was just nodding along because he also wants to perpetuate that same fallacy for same reason.
I think people misunderstood this exchange, what I see is another Arab dictator threatening their own population against revolting and dissenting showing, saying in effect that if you don't obey the big man you end up like Somalia.
Humiliation of the century.
President Sisi of Egypt breaches all diplomatic protocol and uses Somalia as an example of a failed state, right in the presence of Somalia's own president @HassanSMohamud.
Wow.