Somali diasporans are too dramatic, the majority came in a period when the West is probably the most hospitable part of the planet. Fifty years earlier and a group of clowns with pointed bedsheets on their heads would be burning crosses in front of your house, thirty years before that if you were on the wrong side of a World War, you’d be suffering in a internment camp like the Japanese. Thirty years before that you would be fighting Peaky Blinders style gangs in Cardiff and Birmingham like the small group of Yemeni and Somali sailor men did back in the day.
You guys are moaning about a few xenophobes in the West typing words on a screen, when tons of African migrants IN AFRICA are getting killed by South Africans for being to entrepreneurial.
As Somalia continues to stabilise, the country will disappear from global headlines for the wrong reasons. If it pivots into economic prosperity, we could have a complete rebrand like Vietnam. Yesterday a war torn hated country to an economically booming tourist magnet.
This combined with the more stable nuclear family units of the new millennial Somali parents will result in their children being academically successful. If the burden of sending money home is no longer one placed on the diaspora community because of a more prosperous Somalia, the average Somali family in the West would have significant boost in their monthly and annual income, allowing them to save and eventually move to better neighbourhoods, schools, tutors and job opportunities.
One thing I have noticed with the Millennial Somali mothers is that they have become the African version of Tiger moms, and they place as much emphasis on their sons’ education as Gen X mothers used to do with their daughters. I call them Lioness Moms

I’m actually very optimistic for the Somali Future. I feel that if we could emerge from the last 30 years, the worst period in our history, with communities that have a good foundation to propel themselves into model communities, then the next 30 years will be transformative in a positive sense.