Whats with the emphasis on paternal lineage. When Somalis also trace descent through their maternal side via ''Bah'' and ''Habar'' . Your maternal side is never ignored or irrelevant it's an important connection.
And at the same time, someone is a Somali through not only their ancestry, but also culture, language and nationality.
Also even if someone is of mixed cultural background. They can be both, they are not mutually exclusive to each-other.
Tbh the only people I’ve seen who think of them like that are people who are lookin to steal their lands/properties
It's tragic thing , so many Somalis lost their land and property to thugs with guns and hooligans.
I remember hearing that during the outbreak of the civil war they would loot and take peoples properties and justify it by saying ''This is Siad Barre's property we are confiscating'' so initially it was just blind hatred towards him, almost like those rioters you see in the UK, Kenya shouting ''Ruto out'' in recent memories or the BLM protesters in Minneapolis some years back.
When the ICU took over, they started to reinstate people's properties back and land. I hope we can see this happen again. There are many abandoned building and houses believe it or not, so that's another potentiality we can encourage more to come back to.
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the poor guy was so confused
