Even back in the 60s and kacaan era, the country was very poor and struggling with debt compared to other African countries. What was the cause of this? Did we always have bad leaders?
Somalia was always a poor country
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Even back in the 60s and kacaan era, the country was very poor and struggling with debt compared to other African countries. What was the cause of this? Did we always have bad leaders?
techsamatar
I put Books to the Test of Life
We need Islamic Sultanate
Ahmedahmed5000
Vorbeck
This is true, but some somalis view siad barre as some lee kuan yew who made somali into a 1st world country, mainly due to propaganda.
It’s still mind boggling to me that we had so much oil and resources that were discovered early on but were never extracted. Like they found oil in Somali land in 1952 and it was east to extract similar to Saudi, so why didn’t we export it instead of relying on military aid and taking foreign debts. Our economy was based on livestock at the time but they should’ve used the oil and other resources to kick start the economy investing in public infrastructure, education and made military service compulsory. It would’ve killed qabilism and any secessionist movement. Plus we could have given drilling contracts to companies like shell(British) and Exxon (French) in return for djiboutis and NFD unification. There was no incentive to give these lands to Somalia because there was nothing they’d benefit from doing so. It was a bad foreign policy which got us into this position I can’t even blame the British or French we could’ve got international recognition if we had better diplomatic ties based on trade.
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