I don't know who that lady is so I can't speak to that. I don't know anything about her. In any case, I doubt that is in her job description.
But you seem to defend 'cultural values' seemingly at all cost. Any and all manner of strange and negative things have been defended along those lines. I don't think change is inherently bad (it is at times necessary, and mostly inevitable anyway). Somali culture changes and will change. Giving women a greater role in society would not constitute a fundamental change to somali culture.
Well i'm not supposed to responsible for your lack awareness. The point is it's these diaspora women who dictate the narrative they don't allow for open debate and get women with opposite views or locals a space in any discussion.
Without a doubt bad cultural practices exist in the world and culture should cultivate. Don't get me wrong i in no regard think that if something is Somali it is by default better.
But the problem however is the fact that people don't value cultures as equals and don't try to understand it in context of plurality. People are largely ethnocentric,