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The country was never a desert to began with. If you hear stories of our parents and grand parents they will tell you it used to be lush green tropical grassland savanna with scattered trees, shrubs and teeming with wildlife. My own father told me when he was young in Hargeisa he used to see...

Somali brothers in South Africa are intelligent and have a strong entrepreneurial spirit but like the brother above me @DRACO said they either need to invest in security or relocate to another country preferably back home where there is less competition and more money.

I'm not arguing about Somali expansion but my point is it was not on the extreme level of Oromo expansion nor did Somalis practice large-scale assimilation methods like the Oromos. Somalis are more like kick you out than absorb you, do you understand? The issue I had with Sadacha was that he...

I'm not a biased person but what I'm telling you is the truth. Somalis are more Cushitic than any other Cushitic group in Africa. An average Somali ranges between 85%+ on the autosomal DNA records and it includes small percentages from Ethiopia and the Middle East too. Looking at it from this...

It's perfectly normal. The majority of Somalis have typical Cushitic features but you may find a minority with larger noses but that doesn't mean they're mixed. If they took a DNA test, they're just as pure as any other Somali. You'll find that among white people with large noses. They just...

Not true in the slightest, there is no evidence there were pre-existing Cushitic groups in the Somali peninsula before ethnic Somalis nor do Somali clans look different from each other. The wider nose and wider lip people you speak of are Somali Bantus and they are descendants of the slave...

Happy birthday, @Sophisticate. You're one of the most sensible and intelligent women I know on this forum and a fellow OG member! May Allah bless you and provide you with more happiness, inshallah.

Poor diet and excessive exposure to sunlight can contribute to one's look. As for the people talking about the clown in the video. This video shouldn't be an example to all Somalis back home because you'll find plenty of foreigners back home who own businesses and get along with the locals.

I've noticed this trend among the younger generation, mashallah. They're even much smarter, have better akhlaaq, and are less prone to crime compared to the previous generation. If Somalia was a stable country and provided essential nutrition for its citizens for better growth and immunity. I...

No one referred to you as blind or deaf. I showed you a link that there are orphanage centers out there where orphan kids actually stay. Whether their relatives don't bother adopting them because they receive good support or whatnot isn't the point.

Surprisingly there's a lot. There are many international organizations that support and provide orphans a shelter who have lost their parents from disease or civil war. You'll find plenty of orphanage centers in every major city...

My father's brother was a hard-working businessman in Hargeisa and looked after his three kids. He, unfortunately, died very young at his work for not using his protective gear and his wife would die a year later from an unknown illness. They left behind three children, two sons, and one...

I thought I was the only one here leaving the great white north. :ileycry: Sadly, it's no longer the great white north which explains why @AbdiGaalDoon is leaving. :silanyolaugh:

The sad part is they're mainly talking about gaal issues that have nothing to do with our community. :mindblown:

Makes sense because I'm starting to realize women copy men. :mjlol:

I actually heard of this where the family claims the father was left behind in Somalia while the wife takes benefits. The real father, however, is a pretending uncle who works and lives with his family. Don't Somali families recognize they're engaging in haram activities? What's even worse is...

Over 70% of Somalis have Arabic names that's not a definitive proof. I've already shown a couple of sources asserting that Walashma only claimed Arabian origins for legitimate reasons just like the rest of Somali clans and dynasties. It's nothing unique. It's agreed upon by scholars that they...

For Walashma Dynasty? No, because if you read what I was saying earlier Somalis at that time strictly identified based on their clans and not with their ethnicity which is why scholarly opinions are important. The only strongest claim we have for Walashma was they themselves claim to be a...

One thing you have to understand is Zeila was sometimes interpreted to be a region. Read at the "By the fourteenth century" to the end. From there we can all agree Ethio-Semitic languages were spoken in eastern Ethiopia but not the people of Zeila who were said to be predominantly Somalis. The...