Short hair doesn't show the difference between Somali and West African hair. You have to see how it looks when it is long.
Why do they cut it every few weeks to level 1 then? Why don't all of them let it grow? It's because it will look like an AA afro for the vast majority of Somali guys. You'll never see a Somali with "nice hair" cut it so often and so low and when they do cut it, they'll only use scissors to trim it. Let's not play dumb.