Somalia - the Quintessential Banana Republic Creeping in Once Again

opinion

In the Somalia republic, unlike in other parts of African countries and elsewhere, clannish psyche largely determines the power and the impending clan identity that keeps the political rift within them so apart.

In 1991 President Said Barre was overthrown by opposing clans. But they failed to agree on a replacement and plunged the country into lawlessness and clan warfare. Afterwards, Somalia turns to be a global icon of a failed state. Total submissiveness to a certain selfish ideology camouflaged with a vague and unambiguous self-imposed interpretation contrary to the "ideal Islamic school of thoughts" intentionally destined to sharpen the divisions and amplified further the uncertainty of realizing unity of purpose that would have otherwise paved the way to a stable and democratic state in Somalia long before all hell broke loose. All international communities' attempts to lay feet a stable government in Somalia did not materialize in the past and all endeavors were pulled down by the little known Mogadishu corporatocracy (Mega-business owners).

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