Independent.mind ⏱
Independent.mind ⏱

@Independentmi20

7 Tweets 11 reads Jun 27, 2022
🧵 1/7
Somali intellectuals & historians dont give damm about somali history !! All over the internet you’ll find totally fabricated lies on our history but nobody is even bothered by it or wants to correct it.
#somalia #mogadishu
2/7
Somaliland Separatist are literally in control of anything somali/somalia on Wikipedia where they lie on 🇸🇴 to advance their separtists causes and nobody feels bothered by it or wants to correct it !! Bantu kenyans are claiming somali history but again nobody cares !
3/7
People are everyday spreading lies on somalia but no intellectual or academic steps in and in fact they even spread the misinformation themselves ! It seems there is no desire to and the only thing they write about is what ngo’s tell them to and about famine and war !
4/7
I can say for a fact that somalia lacks any actual intellectuals that really do studies that benefits somalis ! All studies on 🇸🇴 the last decades are all done by westerners and were meant for westerners ! Somali historians read western work on their own history 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
5/7
95% of somali historians only know about the colonial history and absolutely nothing else ! The meagre 40 yrs of italian occupation and the 70yrs of British hegemon ! Thats all they know nothing else !
I have never seen a group of academics gathering together for research
6/7
The new generation need to absolutely distance themselves from current somali academics and start a new academia and create a new epistemology and focus on somali history from a somali perspective and research that actually benefit somalis and not foreigners.
7/7
Current day Somali scholars are useless and mostly indoctrinated by western philosophy and have a huge inferiority complex. The only thing they do is repeat western propaganda and in fact they always downplay somalia’s history! They’re nothing but poison to somali literature

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