everywhere in the world have tribes even in europe so i dont think there is anything wrong with it infact it is beneficiall in many ways but we somalis twisted it in to something negative
Agree emphatically
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Tribe is just community which has become genetically linked over time, together with their slaves, assimilated foreigners and closely linked allies. In the West, they will usually have a religious base: the Catholics, the Quakers, the Mormons, the Jews etc. While nepotism and corruption, even lynching, have been part of the western political scene forever, the West has developed means for avoiding the worst excesses, namely constitutional government, frequent elections, and one-man one vote. Checks and balances. There's nothing magic about it.
MSB's generation moved out of Miyi, got educated in languages and specific limited fields and rushed to the international stage without ever becoming an "urban" society. They still operated as separate clans, with separate interests. The big deal even today is a national capital trying to function within an Hawiye degaan. That isn't going to work.
You have two choices, another dictator like Assad or Gadhaffi or MSB, together with his dominant tribe and the nepotism and corruption that goes with that, or construct a constitution with enough checks and balances to make one-man one vote work.
There is nothing innately wrong with tribe or the 4.5 formula. It's how you stick the 4.5 together that is critical.
