The Mareereey sugar project (documentary)!

[Anarchist]

Somalia was more developed in 1975 than it currently is and here is some of that proof.

Forty years later and people fight over scraps, while the rest of Africa & the world pass us by at a lighting pace.

Yes, we've made headway with qabyaalad, we've achieved time travel to the past.

[X.Playa]

Aske Cali Khaliif Galaydh.

[The`Republic]

Aske Cali Khaliif Galaydh.

By God as soon as I saw this topic in generals front page and saw you were the last responder, I knew you would mention him.

[metamorphosis]

Mareeray comes second after jowhar in sugar production.

[The`Republic]

Koronto, I actually met a guy (living in south africa) whose Scottish/Irish father was the project coordinator. The father is in the video and I had a great time listening to the guy's memories as a young kid crisscrossing southern Somalia and running around the Jubba river fields. We stayed at same hotel in Cape Town, caught me in the lobby and asked me if I was Somali. He desperately wants to go see that place again and one day have his kids vacation there

[Anarchist]

X.Playa - Why Cali Galeyr? Why not the countless others who hail from your clan that could just as easily be accused?

Aniga waxaanba la dhacay dad Soomaali ah oo dalkooda ka shaqeysanaayo, si sharaf muteysan.

You can see Bantus in the video and female technicians in the labs testing the sugar after production.

I think most of us have either forgotten or have never known what it is like to live in one's country in peace & with dignity, and specially without qabyaalad divisiveness.

[Garaad_LQ]

cool documentary , been looking for these kinda documetaries ,now , i'm gonna watch the whole thing
thankx anarchist

[waryaa]

i misread it as maserey (jealous woman) sugar project

fyi, we are 40+ years behind. Every year we go behind, the world goes forward

[Anarchist]

Koronto, I actually met a guy (living in south africa) whose Scottish/Irish father was the project coordinator. The father is in the video and I had a great time listening to the guy's memories as a young kid crisscrossing southern Somalia and running around the Jubba river fields. We stayed at same hotel in Cape Town, caught me in the lobby and asked me if I was Somali. He desperately wants to go see that place again and one day have his kids vacation there

My father was maareeye at Faanoole and thus our brief relocation to Jilb as a kid. So, I can understand why anyone would want to give their children the experience of living there. Grateful to both my parents for giving me the opportunity to have lived in Marka, Baraawe, Jilib and Xamar. Not to mention the countless family trips to Buur Hakaba, Diinsoor & Bu'aale. Walee, Ilaaheey dhul buu na siiyay. Dad baa u soo dhintay, naftooda iyo ugubkoodina meel u dhigay, dad kalena weey isaga ciyaaraayaan. We had dignity and the feeling of being a young boy growing up in your country is indescribable to say the least. How dare we forget that and think our petty clan turfs come even close?

@meta - Initially, yes. But by the mid-80s, Mareereey was out-producing Jowhar. But, people never fully grasped this.

@Garaad - You're welcome, brother. It's videos like this that keep me sane and remind me where we came from.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

Anarchist,
answering your statement (Somalia was more developed in 1975 than it currently is) well it would be considering Somalia has been in a civil war and instability for more than two decades.

The thing is more than three quarters of the country was under-developed basically anything north of the shabelle river. More importantly Somalia was a one-city state this is evident when a large portion of the population were living in Mogadishu not to mention everything being based there i.e. hospitals, universities basically anything you required you had to make a safar to mogadishu for it.

[Anarchist]

@waryaa - how does it make you feel whenever you leave Somalia to neighboring Kenya & Ethiopia, then return to Somalia?


@Cumar - Cumar, Somalia (as a whole) was slowly developing. Yes, there was more development in Banaadir, the Shabelles & the Jubbas. But, don't you think with time & resources, the rest of the country would have eventually developed as well? I'm telling you sxb, even I as a 10 year old in 1988 remember Somalia vastly developing in almost all sectors. I remember traveling between Marka & Xamar, and witnessing the construction of Somalia's first 2 lane highway, it was being constructed by an Italian firm & remember seeing a lot of IVECO trucks & equipment on the side of the road. I remember my late father commenting that things were finally getting done & this filled me with a sense of pride. There were many grievances & ills committed in that era, but as a people, the country was ripe for change & progress was happening. Picking up arms & declaring war on each other gained us nothing. I don't have to tell you the end result, brother. It's there for everyone to see.

[Alphanumeric]

Videos like these fill me with resentment I often forget I have. I find myself questioning how I would have been different given the chance to have been raised there in peace. I realize how selfish that may be, given the circumstances of so many on the ground, but I can't help myself in wondering.

[metamorphosis]

Videos like these fill me with resentment I often forget I have. I find myself questioning how I would have been different given the chance to have been raised there in peace. I realize how selfish that may be, given the circumstances of so many on the ground, but I can't help myself in wondering.

Same here. I left before i turned one and all I know about that place is all the stories i have been told and all the books plus essays i have read about it. I now realize I cant really know how it feels to be there unless i really go and live there.

[Cumar-Labasuul]

@Cumar - Cumar, Somalia (as a whole) was slowly developing. Yes, there was more development in Banaadir, the Shabelles & the Jubbas. But, don't you think with time & resources, the rest of the country would have eventually developed as well?
I'm not sure but the way I saw it was Somalia was 'putting all their eggs in one basket' and the status quo didn't seem like changing

I'm telling you sxb, even I as a 10 year old in 1988 remember Somalia vastly developing in almost all sectors. I remember traveling between Marka & Xamar, and witnessing the construction of Somalia's first 2 lane highway, it was being constructed by an Italian firm & remember seeing a lot of IVECO trucks & equipment on the side of the road. I remember my late father commenting that things were finally getting done & this filled me with a sense of pride.

There were many grievances & ills committed in that era, but as a people, the country was ripe for change & progress was happening. Picking up arms & declaring war on each other gained us nothing.
For who sxb, change was required and I don't need to bring up the usual discussion but when you try to silence your citizens then you only need to look at what happened in Iraq, Libya and now Syria. The best thing you can do for your country is to stand down when you see fit.

I don't have to tell you the end result, brother. It's there for everyone to see.
To be honest I think Somaliland and Puntland prospered after the civil war and no matter how much their developments are labelled as "nothing more than clan villages" it is still an achievement. It seems the rest of the country haven't solved out how to put down the arms and start to build

[Hyperactive]

it's nice documentary. i feel it's heart breaking for you kolombo, cause you remember how it was and how turn out. for me just fairy tales.