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shaab_ wrote:Compare Habesha history vs Somali history - Habeshas win (more impressive empires, stone structures, classical era intercontinental trade, very ancient writing systems etc).
Compare Habeshas' current socio-economic situation vs Somalis' current socio-economic situation. Habeshas win again (Addis Ababa vs Mogadishu, enough said).
This arrogant Somali superiority complex over Ethiopians is totally delusional. I am just telling you how I see it.
And what did they accomplish>? Little! Somali empires and kingdoms were responsible for the birth of the East African gold-trade, and had the most widespread trade-network in African history. They introduced gunpowder warfare to the continent, their cities became safehavens for refugees from Persia, India, Al-Andalus and Arabia. There is a Somali seafaring influence from Egypt all the way down to Mozambique and Madagascar, but Habesha influence is strictly in the Horn.
More impressive?

The only claim to fame they have is giving safehaven to the Prophet's family and even then that was in modern Eritrea not the Ethiopia whose cock your sucking. You dare to speak about stone structures, when in Taleex, Somalia you have sub-saharan Africa's largest standing Fortress? You speak about stone structures when Somalia has more historic cities than Ethiopia? Show me one historic Habesha city that can compare to cities like Merka and Barawa (don't you dare bring a historic Somali dominated and influenced city like Harar!!). Yeah they devised an ancient script, but what knowledge did they bring to the world, where is the lasting influence? Somalia produced Sheikh Hussein the biggest saint amongst Ethiopian muslims, Somalia is where the Zayla'i and the Uwaysiyya Orders were born and whose influence can be seen all the way in Indonesia. Somalia produced men like Sa'id of Mogadishu, who travelled more seas and lands than the average Ethiopian of today would know off, and influenced Ibn-Battuta,
More impressive?

Every time a Somali power went into a collision course with a well-armed Abbyssinian empire the latter power caved in at the sheer military force employed by Somali commanders and generals and had to be bailed out by an external power, what so impressive about that.
And what about socio-economics? Even after twenty years of being in conflict Somalia is still more urbanised than Ethiopia which is a city-state country, even after twenty years of peace Ethiopia's literacy is still below that of Somalia, even after twenty years of conflict Somalia teledensity is three times higher than that of Ethiopia, There are less hospitals per capita in Ethiopia than in Somalia, there are more doctors in Somalia per capita than in Ethiopia, Somalia has an independent media, whose journalists have won multiple international awards, while there is only a single state-run media in Ethiopia with entire regions shutdown. Two ports in Somalia alone have the same export volume of the WHOLE of Ethiopia, a country of 80 million people LMAO.
And this an Ethiopia with peace vs a Somalia with half of the country for most of the last twenty years in conflict, and with no FDI. This is Ethiopia operating in full-capacity vs a collapsed Somalia. WTF will the statistics show when Somalia is operating at full-capacity? LOL, that's just brutal, Somalia is now on the path of making the biggest comeback in African history. A regenerated Mogadishu - THE PEARL OF THE INDIAN OCEAN - will easily destroy Addis Ababa - THE [.....?] OF NOTHING LOL - in the coming decade in terms of popularity and beauty. Once the oil start flowing through the pipelines going to the ports of Bosaso, Berbera and Mogadishu various new urban centers will spring up, once the breadbasket of the South regains its status as the biggest agricultural employer in East Africa, don't you dare come back and claim the Somali name, we don't want you, you self-hating slave.
In the Horn of Africa, SOMALIA IS THE FUTURE, we got a sizeable population, we got the best beaches, we got the most deepsea ports, we got the most urban hubs spread across the country, we got the best telecommunication system, we got the most involved diaspora, an unlimited pool of professionals, we got the most widespread merchantile network, we got the biggest reserves of natural resources, from oil, uranium to gas and coal.

In good times, in bad times!