Somalia’s recurring crises are authored at home. Blaming the outside world is a comfort the country can no longer afford
There is a familiar story Somalis tell themselves about their own misfortune. The country’s troubles are always the work of others: colonial cartographers, Cold War rivals, predatory neighbours, scheming donors, and an endless procession of foreign conferences. Abdirahman Roble Ulayare’s recent essay in Hiiraan Online, “Foreign interference and the struggle for Somali sovereignty,” is a sincere example of this tradition. It is also a comfortable evasion.
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There is a familiar story Somalis tell themselves about their own misfortune. The country’s troubles are always the work of others: colonial cartographers, Cold War rivals, predatory neighbours, scheming donors, and an endless procession of foreign conferences. Abdirahman Roble Ulayare’s recent essay in Hiiraan Online, “Foreign interference and the struggle for Somali sovereignty,” is a sincere example of this tradition. It is also a comfortable evasion.
