Were we better off during the colonial times?

[X.Playa]

Iam reading this paper on colonial education in Somaliland and after long reading i have discovered in reality we were much better off during the colonial times, i couldn't beleive it when I read that every single student had a health file and was seen by a nurse to monitor the healht of the student throughout his school years, also girls in Burco had their own small magazine "voice of girls" in the 1940's can you imagine that. Eeven Radio Hargaysa was better off in the 1940's then today a peiece of shit that broadcast songs 24.7.

Radio Hargaysa

The most important tool of the Information Sewice was Radio Hargeisa. The radio was
acquired in 1942. The radio became quickly very popular. Om report noted the "growing
popularity and prestige of the broadcasting services!9121 The Information Service was anxious to
take advantage of the popularity of the medium. Consequently, it established in all the towns
radio diffusion sets that were similar to public address systems. The sets allowed the District
Commissioner to control what the people heard and listened to, although by the 1950s, many people had acquired private sets in the main towns and thus became independent of the radio sets con~olledb y the district commissioners. In the small villages, the Information Office distributed radio sets to local elders and authorities.12* Moreover, the Office issued radio sets in a specially constructed boxes and camed on camel back to the Mal constabulary, and to all the boarding schools where the students "regularly listened in."

The programmes of Radio Hargeisa consisted of world and local news; talks on
education, health. hygiene, agriculture, soil erosion, conservation of forestry and wild life, animal husbandry, locust control, the improvement of such local industries as the skins and hides and gum industries; and local histories and mythologies. Lectures and discussions on the radio were presented by officials of the various departments, religious figures and local traders. The radio broadcasted government notices, poetry, songs, town council meetings, and the proceedings of the Protectorate Advisory Council. It also broadcasted pre-taped English B.B.C. programmes.

Special programmes on the week ending 16 August 1953, for instance, were on the following
topics: "Your Health: the Prevention and Treatment of T.B." by Aden Ismail, B.M.E.;
"Intemtional News Talk" by Yusuf Abdi Atteyeb; "Amusing Talestt by Mohamed Dogor; "My
Experiences" by Ahrned Abdullahi who recounted his wartime adventures on a merchant navy;"Unforgettable Names in Somali History: The Life of the Late Shermarke Ali, the Governor of Zeila" by a local historian; "Questions and Answers," a programme in which school boys
competed in answering questions put to them by Sayyid Abdurahman Seyid Ali, a teacher;
"Famous Somali Poets" by Omar Hussein; and reports on agriculture and animal husbandry.'25
Important broadcasts we= usually tr;mscribed and then published in the "Somaliland News
Letter" during the era of the British Military Administration and in "War Somali Sidihii" and
"Dawn" during the post British Military Administration period. As the hours of broadcasting
increased, more and more programmes were devoted to "education for the masses and the
schools!1 '26

[Meyle]

The Schools were better in the colonial times, bilaa hadal but the British didnt invest in their protectorate like the Italians did with their colony, even though people from British Somaliland could travel to England and get a university degree, many people simply didnt take the chance and Im not sure if there was a university in Hargeisa or Burco at that time. The government of Somaliland need to step up on many fronts.

[STARKAST]

We can still go back to these 'Prosperous' times it just takes Haq.

You know during the colonial times Somalis were like children to their master - as the colonial justification goes. However if the previous generations saw us today maybe they wouldn't been so eager to start the decolonization struggle as they did.

[original dervish]

the iidoor have always had a colonial mentally.
Unfortunately, the British threw them away like yesterdays rubbish.

[X.Playa]

^^^^ step aside little dervish virgin this matter is way beyond idoor or ur daarood shit.

Meyle,

Eeven in health and other social walfare issues the colonial times were better.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/ ... Q50037.pdf

The 1945 report on pauperism maintained that Qat use had many deleterious effects, such
as, neglect of family ties, indolence, inclination to stay in the towns, incapacity for work,
deterioration in health, political agitation, and the expenditure of large sums of money of about f 5,000-10,000 sent out of country into Ethopia.

In 1949 the colonial goverment banned Qaad , sadly we were way better off during those years then we are today after 53 years of freedom.

[Xiis1928]

I don't think we can ban qaad but I support 500% tax on all qaad. The same way they tax the hell out of cigarettes here the U.S.

Our people were more honest pre 1960.

[ElfRuler]

The living standard increases whenever you have efficient and competent leaders ruling over society. We lack order, discipline, and efficiency.

[Ron]

Former SL Finance Minister, Muj. Mohamad Hashi, on HCTV interview, say hospitals in SL were built by the Brits and they need maintenance except three private - Edna Adan and two more built by diaspora with help from foreign aid/ngo/UN.

And I said to myself 'what? and we're still using these hospitals that the colonial built over 100 years ago as patients/doctors have no other choice.

My comments have nothing to do with the current SL government as these projects take time and money.

Decades of under investments, going back all the way to independence day in 1960's.

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

Ilaahey baan ku dharshe waxey ku sheekeysanyaan bal eega.

[grandpakhalif]

While the Darod boast valiant struggle and jihad against the British with the likes of Sayid the Hero, the Idoor reminiscence on colonial servitude.

[skywalker25]

While the Darod boast valiant struggle and jihad against the British with the likes of Sayid the Hero, the Idoor reminiscence on colonial servitude.

You can boast all you want Grandpa, but today its your Darod riding on the bak of Kenyan tanks helping the cease Somali lands and yesterday they were riding on the back of Ethiopian tanks. So you see the Darod say one thing and do the other, with us idoor our words and our action are one.

[Khalid Ali]

I dont know about being better off ofcourse the colonial health care and educational system was good but Somaliland had no development infrastructure the brits didn't settle in Somaliland like they did Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg Nairobi. But that said i would prefer be under colonial Britain than to be ruled from Somalia any time.

[Khalid Ali]

While the Darod boast valiant struggle and jihad against the British with the likes of Sayid the Hero, the Idoor reminiscence on colonial servitude.

The daarood were the biggest English Italian xabashi cock suckers and today they are riding on Kenyan xabashi cocks the only Somali tribe that used Xabashi tanks to fight another tribe the daarood.





The daarood even wanted to construct a memorial statue for the Italian colonial officers in bosaaso in the early 1900s

The son of the Mad cow the loyal pet dog of Emperor haile sellesie he even said that his father was an Ethiopian Hero thats why today those Xabashi servants in jigjiga honor him and called their parliament hall after the mad cow

[CaynabaX]

While the Darod boast valiant struggle and jihad against the British with the likes of Sayid the Hero, the Idoor reminiscence on colonial servitude.

The daarood were the biggest English Italian xabashi cock suckers and today they are riding on Kenyan xabashi cocks the only Somali tribe that used Xabashi tanks to fight another tribe the daarood.





The daarood even wanted to construct a memorial statue for the Italian colonial officers in bosaaso in the early 1900s

The son of the Mad cow the loyal pet dog of Emperor haile sellesie he even said that his father was an Ethiopian Hero thats why today those Xabashi servants in jigjiga honor him and called their parliament hall after the mad cow

Xaaji Suudi Shabeele and Ibraahim Buqul died while fighting in Taleex due the bombs dropped by the british while Ina carro and Abshir Dhoore fled. Talk about showing resistance.

[SahanGalbeed]

There's this yemeni cleric from Southern Yemen who was a mentor to Osama bin Laden who said the same thing .
We were better off under the brits than with Ali Abdallah Salah and his cronies , he said .