Somalia to Honor Hodan Naleye and Award Prize in Her Honor

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Hodan Nalayeh was a good and cheerful person, but she also personified a lot that is wrong with Somalis today: ignoring problems, lacking critical introspection and accountability, pretending all is well and sunny in Somalia. This is not the type of mentality that will drag Somalia out of the gutter. Somalia doesn't need perpetual optimists, it needs realists. Glorifying Hodan like a saint obfuscates this reality, and it will send a subliminal message to others that Hodan's (naive and dangerous) behavior is to be imitated, when it's the very thing that got her killed. Putting aside emotions, I say no to a Hodan Nalayeh award.