No offense, but a lot of self-hatred is being cloaked as ‘intellectualism’. There was nothing wrong with Somalia’s geography, that’s a cope. None of the several dozen coastal cities and interior cities would have been sustainable for centuries and been known across the planet as thriving hubs of trade if that had been the case because they all depended on the produce from the inland regions. The tsetse fly cope also never reached us, as we had large horse populations.
There is also clear evidence of advanced water manipulation by medieval Somalis through water wheels, hydraulic cisterns and even aqueducts, all of which supported farms in large swathes of Somaliweyn, as not all Somalis were nomads. Are you guys even aware that as late 150 years ago, the North was still home to major Wildlife populations and many different seasonal rivers? While the South had two standing rivers for a population, that pre-19th century, was less than a million but was still known as the grain coast of Arabia because of the large quantities of grain exports, and all of the meat eaten on the other side of the Red Sea came from Somalia, a literal land of milk and honey!
While you guys wish you were an African Persian slash Roman Empire with cities boasting gigantic Chinese Temples. I’m personally impressed with our ancestors and what they achieved, be it the thousands of years of independence next to waterways sailed by predatory empires since Ancient Egypt, or the fact that they were relevant enough to be included in every ancient and medieval manuscript about the African continent, or that they founded cities that are some of the best examples of urbanisation in Africa, or that they could field armies strong enough to go toe to toe with European armies or local rivals like Abyssinia.
History is a fact, no coulda, woulda, shoulda. No need to diminish your people’s history because of their current situation, when so little has been excavated and researched, and so much is yet to be revealed and STILL the country has everything it needs to succeed in terms of heritage, location, resources and manpower. Disunity is not a Somali invention, the two Koreas are identical in language, genetics, culture and heritage, but that didn’t stop them from deleting each-other in the millions, same with the Vietnamese and others like the Colombians, Syrians, Libyans or the Yemenis, our Achilles heel is politics and subversive interests.
The funny thing is if Somali leaders tomorrow sat down with one another and came to a compromise and Somalia leapfrogged development over the next decades, none of the above Guns, Germs and Steel out-takes would even matter. Its only because of the current situation that you guys feel that they have merit, which is as silly as taking the massive famines in Ireland and Sweden as evidence that the Swedes and Irish could not sustain themselves with their lands, forever, which is a silly thought today because those countries are now flourishing, but it would have had merit a hundred years ago. It would be like being a person’s born in 1905 Europe and only witnessing colossal world wars, one after another and then dying in 1942. That person’s perspective about the average European being capable of peace and unity would be totally warped, yet decades latter there is the European Union.
You guys are basically that person born in 1905, and don’t realise it.
