Hiiraan Online

by Zahra J. Saleh
Friday, August 19, 2011

I am Somali lady who works for a government establishment in the United Arab Emirates and I always come across a lot of Africans from the whole continent.   I must admit that there is no African country that I did not see them visiting at my working place, except maybe very few of them.

My attitude towards the African people is to consider myself as their Ambassador in this foreign country where many of them don’t speak its language which is Arabic language. I, myself as a Somalis I am not treated as a foreigner because of the long traditional trading between Somalia and many Arab countries which is from 1837 till date.

What is wrong with the Kenyans and why they always treat the Somali people as enemy, talk about them badly and humility them constantly?    Guys, I mean you Kenyans,  we are neighbors,  we share a land which is originally “ours”, our Somali people are living with you  side by side and you guys have plus in all the ways.

Somalis are very smart dignified people and their current problem is only temporary.   The recent crisis in Somali could happen to any other Africa country and it has already happened to Kenyan only a few years ago. I remember that very well.  The Kenyan civil war was very ugly and if it was not the intervention of Western countries who has strong interest in Kenya, I am quiet sure the Kenyan situation would have been thousand times worse than one in Somalia.  And after all, Somalis has many friends in world-wide and also many shoulders to cry-on.   

Secondly, what ever money Somali people got in their pockets and how they get it, is not Kenyans problem as far as they are benefiting out of it.  Somali people are generous, hard working, and fair to both their business associates and their employees and that is what the Kenyan’s should evaluate and consider.  Kenyan’s business was always in the hands of foreigners and they should learn from the entrepreneurism of Somalis.

In addition the generosity and open-mindedness of Somali people had put them in “maps of the world” and maybe it is high time many others to learn from them, instead of feeling jealousy from them. 

Somalia will remain as an East Africa State, a member of East African Union and very much in the East African Communities and they will never ever require neither the permission of Kenyan’s nor their Prof. Ocheign. 

Kenyan people and Somali people are neighbors and they need each other but again if the worse comes worse, Kenyans might be the biggest loser than the Somalis due to many facts.

Subsequently, I think one should not throw a stone when his own house made of a glass.