Why Somali Bantus should lead somalia?

[AhlulbaytSoldier]

They know how to unite people
Somali Bantu leaders meet in S.A. for national conference


Mohamed Muse (from left) and Hamadi Shebule of Buffalo, N.Y., talk with Dadiri Jama and Issak Issak of San Antonio. LISA KRANTZ/lkrantz@express-news.net

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By Vincent T. Davis - Express-News
Monday, August 09, 2010

Forty Somali Bantu leaders from across the nation gathered in San Antonio for a two-day conference to collaborate on ways to better serve their communities.
The group — men and women, young and old — met Saturday and Sunday at the second annual conference sponsored by the Somali Bantu National Association Network.

The Somali Bantu Association of San Antonio hosted the conference. Sessions included discussions about women's empowerment, English as a second language, Somali Bantu culture, networking and building better communities.

Abdi Aden Abdi of Tucson, Ariz.; Rasulo Rasulo Jr. of Denver; Rukia Mohamed of Portland, Ore.; and Ahmed M. Yusuf of San Antonio talked about the conference Sunday morning between seminars.

“Our mission is to expand,” Abdi said, “and welcome other Somali Bantus who are struggling in communities to come to the table with us so we can share experiences and work with each other.”

The network began in 2007, when the San Antonio and Houston associations contacted the Tucson group for help with assimilation issues. The group has expanded to include 35 other communities, spanning the country from New York to Idaho.

Abdi said the network has a telephone conference call once a month to support each other and talk about problems and issues. He said their goal is saving the next generation of Somali Bantus, an ethnic minority in their homeland.

One way to achieve that goal, he said, is teaching youth to follow the teachings of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and former South African president Nelson Mandela.

“If we deviate, then we will not be surprised by how our generation could possibly be lost,” Abdi said. “And we cannot see all the sweetness of all this African culture.”

The group said the biggest challenges facing the Somali Bantu communities are education, parenting children in a Western culture and civic engagement.

“We need to connect with our neighborhood, see what they did and how they overcame their struggles,” Mohamed said. “We have to provide examples for them.”

They also talked about their successes, such as the increase in college graduates and applications for U.S. citizenship.

The four leaders said they all have college degrees. They estimated there are more than 300 graduates in the Somali Bantu communities nationwide.

Yusuf said he received his degree in hotel management from St. Philip's College and became a U.S. citizen on March 19, 2009.

“That's your birthday,” Rasulo said. “That's your American birthday.”

Yusuf said one crucial ingredient for future success is devising ways to help Somali elders maintain their influence in their new land. They all agreed that if their culture is to continue to thrive, they'll need the elders to pass their knowledge to younger generations.

“They are the backbone of our culture,” Rasulo said. “If he passes away, I've lost that part. He's my main point, my main vision.”

[DR-YALAXOOW]

shit even somali bantus are skinny they have been infected by other somali nomadics for been skinnys, shit i though always somali bantus were built like west africans, but these guys in the picture look like kaynaaan, skinny like any skinny somalis. beesha jareer weyne for president 100% waa dad xalaal quudato ah beesha somali bantus waan hubaa madaxweyne hadii laga dhigo inay million jeer ka fiicnaanayaan OROMO CHILDREN AKA SOMALI NOMADICS

[The_Emperior5]

Bantus are hardworking people
How ever if bantu lead Somalia does that mean that Somalia will lose its members ship in the Arab league lol joke

[Berke]

They already do but it doesn't seem to be working.

[marcassmith]

Kenya’s ‘Somali headache’ is at the same time the country’s ‘blessing’
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By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO (email the author)

Posted Wednesday, August 4 2010 at 17:36
The final verdict on the referendum on Kenya’s proposed constitution that was held on Wednesday will, as many people have noted, also be a judgment on the much-touted Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC).

At the level of personalities, it will be a report card on the chair of the IIEC, Mr Ahmed Isaack Hassan. However, Mr Hassan’s stewardship of the IIEC is part of a bigger narrative about something else – the place of Kenyan Somalis in the larger Kenyan story.

Every so often, there is some grumbling about Somalis in Kenya – that they are flooding the country as refugees; that they are terrorists. It is also said that they are muscling everyone else out of the real estate business with money from piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

In the heat of the debate over the kadhi courts provisions in the draft constitution, there were accusations of a “Muslim conspiracy to take over Kenya”. “Proof” of this conspiracy was that the key political institutions were “under Muslim control”.

Mr Hassan at IIEC was named, as was Mr Abdikadir Mohammed, chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee that oversaw the draft constitution in its journey through the House, Mr Yusuf Haji, minister of Defence, and Ms Amina Mohammed, permanent secretary in the Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs ministry, to name a few.

The striking thing about Kenya, relative to other East African countries, is not how many Muslims are in key government positions, but that most of them are Somali. A colleague explained that “Kenya is very conflicted about both its Somali citizens, and the Somalis who come over as refugees or residents”.

He added: ‘‘We are both very suspicious, but also accommodating. Kenya is possibly the only country in Africa where Somalis are safest.” If Kenya has a “Somali problem”, then it also enjoys a “Somali dividend”.

In the post-Kanu Kenya of the last seven years, no ethnic group has been able to dominate power to the exclusion of others. No party has had the national clout that Kanu once had. And the big national groups – the Kikuyu, Kalenjin, Luhya, Luo, Kamba – have largely fought themselves to a draw.

In this situation, the Kenyan Somalis have been the “consensus” tribe. So the big nationalities fought after the 2007 elections and cannot agree on who should head the IIEC without drawing too much suspicion? Give it to Hassan, a Somali. You are afraid that some old vested and tribal interests will hijack the constitution in Parliament? Give it to Abdikadir, a Somali.

To use some Mazruispeak, the very “otherness” of Somalis that leads to hostility from other Kenyans, is also the source of the “oneness” that makes them safe insiders. Now Somalis face a common problem with many marginalised communities and groups, like women for example.

To get ahead in a world dominated by other nationalities, you really have to be very good. The Somalis, both in Kenya, and now globally, have developed a very competent core of bureaucrats. And, whatever shortcomings they might have, Hassan and Abdikadir have helped bring a fresh air of competence and professionalism to the business of constitution-making and elections.

In Somalia, there is no group that plays the safe holding position that Somalis play in Kenya. So they fight themselves to the death and trash their country. In fact a lot of the brutality and madness in Africa is partly down to this lack of an “outsider” tribe, which is also a minority.

In Rwanda, in many ways, there was the same lack of a harmless ethnic group that would be entrusted to take temporary custody of state business as the tempers cool off among the big boys. The attraction of groups like Somalis (like the mixed race populations in West Africa) is that deep down, there is a misguided but comforting feeling among the big communities that if push comes to shove, they can always be chased away and sent “back where they came from”.

In Africa, therefore, the country that does not have a local version of Kenyan Somalis should be very afraid.

source: http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/Kenya%20S ... index.html

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Perhaps Somali Bantu's can play a similar role in the former Somalia Koonfuria.

[Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah]

hututhing you probably call them 'Khawarij' cos they're not from your clan