The Harvard educated parliamentarian who recently chaired Kenya's successful constitutional reform
Abdikadir could do an Obama in Kenya
Makau Mutua
They say history is made by those who dare to dream. But, as William Shakespeare wrote in the Twelfth Night, “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”.
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This is a rare development that makes one think it is still ok to be a Somali and enhances the believe that a Somali can progress and count for something.
Not realistic. Many factors against him.
# 1 Somalinism. it is a liability to be a somali in todays world. The name is notorious, dubious and fraun upon in kenya.
# 2 No Kikuyu or Luo will allow A somali to take precedent over them. Kenyas are africans first before they are civilized society. Even Obama would not have won the presidency in kenya. (and he was half luo)
# 3 The muslim factor. Kenya is a Christian country--first and formost. Hussein, as a president is not the same as Obama hussein as US president.
# 4 America will not allow it. His Harvard education is not enough to make them trust him over the lower i.q kenyans.
# 5 Dream on.
Where in Kenya were you born Basra?
Vy i wish i was borin in Nairobi? it sounds so exotic. I loved visitin that city back in 2005.
Just imagine or dream it.... just think that all 5 the countries in East Africa i.e Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Somaliland and Somalia (Somali inhabited lands in East Africa), governed by Somali Presidents. So far we 3 out of the 5 but the big two are without and if we only had in Ethiopia and the other lands the likes of Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed (Kenya's President elect 2012) (an ambitous, determined audacious and politivally endowed/enlightened individual) Somalis would become the touch bearers of Africa and world influential ethnic group. This guy is thinker, he sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and has achieved what other thought impossible and Allah willing will achieve the ultimate ''impossible''.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
I think it is VERY POSSIBLE for Abdikadir Hussein to become Kenya's next president and others like him to become Presidents in other lands.
But if you think it's impossible it is only because you haven't found the solution yet. You must know that Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
We Somalis (the willing ones), led by the unknowing, have savered and been through what was once seen and thought of as impossible, and recently are doing the impossible for the ungrateful (geeljire heads). We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.
“Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.”
''Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” ---- various Great Man of History
“Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.”
The 5 sided STAR in the Somali Flags would have surely lived up to its name.