So my mom want to waqooyi (hargeisa specifically), and she was visiting relatives she hadn't seen since the Civil War, and there were so many new extended family. Wat surprised her was that many of the extended family that came to greet her were clans from sool and snaag.. and she was surprised because the current clan conflict is made out to be a dispute between two separate oppositions of clans and their people, but these people are literally deeply integrated.
She said when ever dispute happen and there is jailing and killings the families I'm hargeisa would call their extended family in sool and basically ask to look after their family member (and vice versa).
These people have been living door to door for the past centuries and having same language, culture, faith ( nearly common in everything) they are the same people but because clanism is so rooted in somali culture they have 'us and them' mentality..
this us and them mentality is used as a manipulation tactic by the corrupt politically interested individuals (mostly old heada) to get ahead in politics or business.
She said when ever dispute happen and there is jailing and killings the families I'm hargeisa would call their extended family in sool and basically ask to look after their family member (and vice versa).
These people have been living door to door for the past centuries and having same language, culture, faith ( nearly common in everything) they are the same people but because clanism is so rooted in somali culture they have 'us and them' mentality..
this us and them mentality is used as a manipulation tactic by the corrupt politically interested individuals (mostly old heada) to get ahead in politics or business.