Yes but those methods are more costly and out dated . You must realize that we lack slot of resources required to make the equipment, the Americans robbed a land rich in rare metals and resources so of course that combined with the knowledge they took from Europe made them a powerhouse. We lack the knowledge and the resources. Sometimes I wonder what Somali would have been like if our ancestors ventured out onto the world and weren't soon isolationist like China was. When you isolate yourself you make yourself vulnerable and weak, you can't compete in arms races since you don't know what the enemy is up to and you don't establish good trade with other nations.
Do y'all think the Greeks really meant east africans? I mean they said the kingdom beyond ethipia's river and that we were rich in gold .
what is it that makes us so backwards today and when did the decline start? No trolling! I am curious as to when we started to decline, obviously we weren't the most advanced but surely we only survived so long because we had some system that worked and we know that our ancestors used to know how to extract gold and their own resources back in those days.....I mean they were traders for god's sake. So what was it? Did the later generation of Somalis become lazy? Was it war that devastated us and sent us back to the dark ages or did the next generation just get lazy. I wish our history was written but since there are no archeologists in Somalia...I guess we will never know.
Geography is the major contributor to most of the answers you want.
We just weren't able to keep together huge populations for a long time.
If we had a large city with over a 100,000 people a couple of centuries back then everything would've been different.
However, we simply didn't have the resources to keep those urban places fed.
That's why the earliest large civilisations all originated from near huge rivers.
There's a long answer to this but you need a book to fully cover it.
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Btw we do have the resources to pull our own oil development.
Somalis would be more than happy to invest billions into a domestic oil company.
They don't need billions to discover the oil. A couple hundred millions would let us quickly find out if there's oil.
Another couple hundred million bucks could get us all the tech we need. Just buy companies in the West with the IP or licenses.
Once we find viable deposits then we could just get a loan from oil importers like China or India in return for a long standing deal I.e 100k barrels/day at a set price.
Won't hurt us as it will be less than a fraction of our production inshallah.
Might seem like a fantasy but other countries have been doing this for half a century.
It's time we stay catching up.
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