Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow I am a mother, over eighty years old, living in Mogadishu. The house they demolished was not merely a building; it was the home where I was born, where I grew up, where I lived, and where I carried the memories of my entire life. Every wall held a memory. Every corner...
A Rejoinder to “Much Worship, Little Morality” and “The Problem Is Not a Lack of Worship—It Is the Absence of Accountability” By Aweys O. Mohamoud, PhD The recent exchange between Dr Abdurahman Baadiyow and Dayib Sh. Ahmed raises one of the most consequential questions Somalis can ask themselves after more than three decades of state...
By Dayib Sh. Ahmed In the aftermath of a devastating war that has claimed countless lives, destroyed homes, scattered families, and shattered dreams, the people of Somalia have risen once more not in despair, but in determination; not in resignation, but with a spirit of resistance against humiliation and continued suffering. For decades, Somalia has...
By Abdulhakim A Sheik Somali society rebuilt itself after the state fell on trust, privacy and quiet mediation. A generation raised on the smartphones is now testing whether any of that still holds. Picture a house in Mogadishu, or Minneapolis, or Nairobi. A husband and wife are arguing — not violently, but badly, the way...
Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow There is a profound question that should touch both our hearts and our minds: How is it possible for a society so deeply attached to its religion to remain, for more than thirty years, trapped in collapse, conflict, division, poverty, misgovernance, and statelessness? Somalia presents a tragic example of the enormous gap...
Reviewed By: Dr. Abdulkadir Osman Farah Author: Dr Abdurahman Abdullahi (Baadiyow)Publisher:Looh Press, England, UKYear: 2025Pages: 386 pages Wise leadership Once, Garaad Xirsi Faarax Xirsi (Wiilwaal), a traditional Somali leader, challenged his people, as he often did. He asked them to identify the core element that shapes social and political organisation among disputing men—and occasionally women....
Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow The question of whether clans are the victims of modern state, or whether clans themselves victimize that state, is analytically puzzling and contested. However, the dominant narrative is that clans victimize the state and are an incurable cancer in the process of state-building, and that it is one of the major reasons...
Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow Somalia’s clannism has been presented in overly simplistic terms that fail to capture its true complexity. Clannism in Somalia has been presented as being divisive rather than being a product of centuries-old systems of lineage and traditional systems of solidarity and governance. However, the recent history of political manipulation and conflict has...
By Abdullahi A. Nor Somalia stands on a knife-edge. Political tensions are at a peak, institutional trust is fraying, and the country faces challenges that could determine its survival as a unified state. What began under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in May 2022 as a promise of stability and reform has, according to critics, devolved...
By Dr. Abdurahman Baadiyow Somalia stands today at a moment of truth—a moment that will determine whether we rise as a united nation or slip once again into the darkness we know too well. Our internal divisions are widening, our institutions are fragile, and now an external shock—the recognition of “Somaliland” by Israel—has exposed just...