Opinion
The Rise & Maybe the Fall of The Elite Somali Political Dynasty
Many recent high profile appointments and the following power disputes serve as an evidence to what the Somali public have long been complaining that ...
Read More »Memories of Colonial Africa
I was born in 1954 in colonial Africa. One of my most cherished mementos from the colony of Nigeria is one of the pennies I received for my school lun...
Read More »The Miracle Map
The photo you see here is a Somali map lying just outside my house in Braås, Sweden. Coming back from Växjö on a very cold October afternoon, I saw...
Read More »Why the new PM is the right man for the job
Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Farmajo), the new Prime Minister designate was a former colleague of mine and fellow civil servant in Somalia’s Foreign M...
Read More »Moving Forward
The recent nomination of Mohamed Farmajo for the post of Prime Minister has resulted in much partisan debate within the Somali diaspora. My sense is t...
Read More »Dr. Mohamed Aden: A Cardiologist-turned-Communist
A shepherd, medical doctor, communist, émigré and former Somali minister, Dr Mohamed Aden Sheikh Aw-Mohamud deserves a loving eulogy that touches he...
Read More »Time for New leadership in Minnesota House District 61A
This year’s election is coming already. On Tuesday, November 2, I will need your vote to enable me to become the next state legislature district 61A...
Read More »A plea for Somali Intelligentsia to Salvage their dying Nation
Somalis are perishing. This minute you are reading these lines now, a vast number of them are perishing by bullets and bombs which are down-pouring o...
Read More »Somalia's New Prime Minister: Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered
Just when it seems things can get no worse for Somalia's dubiously legitimate, utterly ineffective, and wholly self-serving "Transitional Federal Gove...
Read More »My life as German in Somalia
I arrived with my family in Mogadishu, November 1984, I was 15 years old and was looking forward to all the experiences that awaited me in Somalia, my...
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