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by Ashkir Ali (Birike)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The future of many nations has mostly been tied to the personal talent of its leaders. History has provided us with several instances from time immemorial with lucid examples of the Roman civilization and Nazi Germany to name a few. Since the impact of leadership is immense on the society, to talk about it becomes inevitable.
Although many scholars have wrote on the subject of leadership, most of them automatically assume that leadership is somehow synonymous with goodness and virtue, but it has been proven good leadership can be thought or train for someone, history teaches us the best and most talented leaders in the world were god given talent or self made. In that sense the challenges that many African countries face can be blamed for bad leadership, talent, poor decision making and arrogance.
Since Somalia blanched into civil war early 1991 there were a hand full of so called leaders or I might say “warlords” and each and every one of them were imitating one of the other, first and foremost it is not a good thing to pretend some one that you are not, second as I mention earlier in my writing leadership can be thought but the person whose learning must be willing to fulfill a set of steps in order he/she to became a good leader, if you do not follow these set of rules then your accomplishment will be cut short, imagine where the teacher is the student and the student is the teacher, Now in order to become a good leader you need to have a passion for leadership, you need to be a fierce nationalist, you need to stay away from tribalism and you need to sacrifice. In the mean time while several books explain how one can become a successful leader and build all the skills and qualities required for such a role, there hardly has been any effort in dwelling on the nuances of bad leadership and incompetence.
Therefore bad leadership is a stimulating digression from this kind of traditional thinking. However you put it bad leadership is why my beloved Somali nation has been suffering so long, the nation that ones defeated the so called lions of Africa in their turf, became the third strongest nation in black Africa, the moral of this article is not to write about the situation of Somalia only but to enlighten the majority of our youth and to unveil the dirty tactics these bad leaders are using to prolong their existence, so for our youth there is nothing to wait, our time has come, we shouldn’t count on no one but to engage political movement that can change the bad leaders that became a leaders by default.
Ashkir Ali (Birike)
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Columbus, Ohio