elites like P.L.O. Lumumba are part of the problem.
Ayrotv.com-They speak with grand gestures about Africa’s unity, yet behind the scenes, they support secessionist agendas that are rooted in tribalism, not liberation. Lumumba is a polished fraud a smooth-talking intellectual con artist who points at colonialism with one hand while propping up division with the other. Take the secessionist movement in northern Somalia. It’s not a national movement — it’s a one-clan enclave push by the Issaq, a group from a small triangle-shaped area in the northwest. That’s it. From the east to the far northwest, there are numerous other tribes — Gadabursi (Samaron), Dhulbahante, Warsangeli, Essa, and more — who span across the borders of this so-called breakaway zone.
Ironically, the Issaq are often labeled “Beesha Dhexe” — the Middle Tribe — not because they represent the middle politically or numerically, but because they live in the middle of other tribes, surrounded on both sides. They’re boxed in, not dominant. Let’s be honest: one tribe that dominates a few cities doesn’t get to declare itself a country. Would the Luo in #Kenya, who control Kisumu, be allowed to secede and create a Luo Republic? Of course not. Kisumu is a city in Kenya, not a kingdom. And the Luo are one tribe in a diverse nation, just like Issaq are one among many in Somalia. This fantasy of “Somaliland independence” is built on a fake map, fake history, and fake legitimacy. A one-clan project dressed up as nationalism. It ignores the realities of the people living in the east and west of the north — people who don’t support secession and who have paid the price for resisting it. One clan can’t break #Somalia. Somalia isn’t a tribal experiment. It’s a nation. And Africa won’t move forward if frauds like Lumumba keep giving platforms to tribal secession while preaching fake unity. Africa needs truth, not theatre. Unity, not division. And Somalia will not be broken by those who confuse clan ambition with national destiny.
Reff: Prof. Elham Ishmael ✍︎
