In the pursuit of the national liberation
By Mohamed Garad The situation of the Somali nation demands a profound critical examination. Being one of the most homogenous nations on the face of the earth with the largest and most strategic territorial land among the nations in the Horn of Africa, the Somali nation lacks one basic element essential for its existence and progress: statehood. The cause of this is not the law of probability. It’s mainly the direct consequence and classical case of Edward Said’s Westphalia deferrals. The destruction has two layers. First, the soil of the Somali nation was brutally obliterated and divided not by one but four colonial powers: Britain, France, Italy, and Ethiopia—Africa’s only colonial empire that persists to this day. Second, the Somali person is robbed of his/her core values and mainly reduced to a clannish entity impervious to obtaining a nation-state. The second layer is the mortal one. As this article is being written, the juridically sovereign Somali territories a...