Wow I didn't realize they restricted our ability to sell goods and trade. I also had thought one of the reasons somali scripts hadn't taken off was because of clanism. But just reading this it really looks like they went to great lengths to keep us from developing. I can't imagine how much we must have went backwards in the first half of the 20th century if this is what was happening across somalia. Especially when you combine this with the somalk massacre in harar and all the raids by Ethiopians.
That's not really true . They didn't go into the interior much. But they banned somalia from importing weapons and they basically took control over coastal trade in the north.
How do you think the gulf of berbera went from being called the gulf of aden?
that burns my ass stupid langaab italians i never knew why
That was the britishs fault btw not italians
you’re always chatting shit, learn to close that mouth of yours.
no rebuttal to what i said just emotions..
At most you can attribute a few buildings in the city to them (arc de triumph, catholic church etc), few roads and the railways was dismantled by the brits and it didn’t even cover all of italian somaliland. But the city as we knew it pre-civilwar was expanded and rebuilt after the italians left..
Wait
I just checked the thread I linked to and in there YOU yourself are saying Mogadishu was made into the city it was by somalis (the kacaan). Why are you deliberately spreading misinformation on here?i’m convinced he’s trolling, claiming that Arabs & Italians built Mogadishu, he was even claiming in another thread Somalis don’t do farming, it’s like he gets a kick out of spreading misinformation.Wait
Hargeisa originally started as a small agricultural settlement in the mid-to-late 1800s and gradually grew into a city later on.
This how Mogadishu looked like before the Italians and it was not a shithole: It had mosques, multi storied whitewashed dwellings, storage facilities, madrassas, work shops and forts, and a wall with 5 gates surrounding it.
Italians inherited two quarters, these quarters already existed prior to them, so they didn't build anything important, or expand the city, other than one road for banana export and like a church, lighthouse or a gate in the middle of city, next to historic mosques and towers that are centuries old to the point it overshadows it.
The city map under the Italians: Showing Shingani and Hamarweyne,
This is a description of Mogadishu and coastal towns under the Italians. It was not clean nor aesthetic. Somalis complained because the didn't allow us to the develop or improve it
What built the city was actually the two Somali governments that came after . The Kacaan government cleaned most of the area,
They expanded the city into many new districts and started to clean it up. They built new landmarks, monuments, villas , housing, hotels, mosques, theaters, stadiums, streets ,roads and they planted trees, gardens etc
City map under Kacaan government: The government even repaired old districts that the Italians bulldozed.
