Only Saddam knows so might as well tell you I started writing 1st of 2 books on Marehan

[Voltage]

I have no idea why I haven't already done it.

After someone very close to me said "why do you hoard this stuff and have you ever thought about doing what we (family) said you should be doing since you were a kid (be a historian)," I literally did an audit of the random stuff I have collected over a long period (about 80% which I have not even shared here) and was sort of taken back by how much information I had.

I have 3 gmail accounts devoted just to holding some in the drive, 2 cloud accounts, and very other means of all the original material I have collected.

Can you believe that I even randomly interacted with Italian government record keepers and even randomly convinced them to digitize various colonial records after I was annoyed by how behind the Italians were in putting out public info like the Brits?

The person close to me said this while browsing through my collection.

I literally stopped in my tracks and said almost less than 0.05% of Somalis may have even seen most of this.

So I decided to write two books;

1. A historical survey of Marehan history and I am going to start putting out various aspects of it out in something I have decided to call "Gedo Truth Campaign."

This will be a historical survey. Meaning I am going to provide information about Marehan history and original sourcing.

"Basically this happened this time and is affirmed by this."

I am not making any arguments, but rather if someone is writing something relevant to this subject then they would source either my work or the work I have surveyed who would be the "source" the other person is making.

2. The second book is a light, cross generational book about various moments in Marehan history that stand out.

[Voltage]

This is something I have randomly played around with as the face of the "Gedo Truth Campaign" meant to be like as a "set the record straight" for all of the things Somali illiteracy had impacted about Marehan equities like

-Siad brought them to Gedo
-The Somal language was written by someone other than Shire Jama etc.

[celidheere]

I have no idea why I haven't already done it.

After someone very close to me said "why do you hoard this stuff and have you ever thought about doing what we (family) said you should be doing since you were a kid (be a historian)," I literally did an audit of the random stuff I have collected over a long period (about 80% which I have not even shared here) and was sort of taken back by how much information I had.

I have 3 gmail accounts devoted just to holding some in the drive, 2 cloud accounts, and very other means of all the original material I have collected.

Can you believe that I even randomly interacted with Italian government record keepers and even randomly convinced them to digitize various colonial records after I was annoyed by how behind the Italians were in putting out public info like the Brits?

The person close to me said this while browsing through my collection.

I literally stopped in my tracks and said almost less than 0.05% of Somalis may have even seen most of this.

So I decided to write two books;

1. A historical survey of Marehan history and I am going to start putting out various aspects of it out in something I have decided to call "Gedo Truth Campaign."

This will be a historical survey. Meaning I am going to provide information about Marehan history and original sourcing.

"Basically this happened this time and is affirmed by this."

I am not making any arguments, but rather if someone is writing something relevant to this subject then they would source either my work or the work I have surveyed who would be the "source" the other person is making.

2. The second book is a light, cross generational book about various moments in Marehan history that stand out.

I really need this! Will buy in the future. I want to learn more about my sub clan and other sub clans too.

[UgaaskaBarakaysan]

You will definitely get a lot of interest on priceless information like this that'll truly benefit generations to come. I will get a copy myself when it's published of course. Much props for taking on this initiative sxb.

[ReturnOfMariixmaan]

Check ur DMs guys.

[ReturnOfMariixmaan]

We need this ASAP.

[STARKAST]

Are you going to include Saleebaan SSDF ?

But on the real i wish you scholastic successes in your endeavors regarding the history of my uncles.

[dalalos101]

mashallah looking forward to reading it ina adeer

[barbarossa]

It is about damn time the much neglected history of the illustrious House of Sade, is brought to the forefront both nationally and globally.

[Murax]

Voltage,

This is EXCELLENT news. I used to always fear this fantastic material would be wasted on a bunch of bitter people here on SNET who sadly don’t have the intelligence and perspective to understand at the end of the day Somali history is Somali history REGARDLESS of qabil. I finally realize now you were not doing it for these simpleton’s reactions but as part of a larger endeavor, and I’m relieved. I’m glad these high level information sources you gathered will be where they finally belong, a BOOK to be read by people who actually read. Remember 50% of SNETers don’t actually even have a HS education.


Btw, I would not be surprised if the material you gathered has already been used many different places. Eaglehawk had info on that. The developers of this grand strategy empire game ONLY has Marehan and Ajuraan as the selectable nation states no other Somali tribe.



“Marehan is a select-able nation in Europa Universalis IV at the beginning in 1444. Its government type is a Despotic Monarchy.”

Even cadaan video game designers don’t deny historical facts, because unlike Somalis they have at a MINIMUM high school level reading

Some cadaan guy selecting and playing with Marehan in Ethiopian empire war




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[Voltage]

It is about damn time the much neglected history of the illustrious House of Sade, is brought to the forefront both nationally and globally.

I don't like this. Before you get defensive, I am neither attacking you and nor am I motivated by anything negative towards you.

What you did there above is seemingly covered under what society has termed "sarcasm." It's a double edged sword; sarcasm, and the precarious justifiability reflects the lack of consensus surrounding just what exactly constitutes the "exact application" in the way the plurality of applicants have tended to exercise it.

Namely, oh it is just "humor."

Perhaps.

Remember though, humor is not measurable (at least as I understand it); it is not a quantitative or exact phenomenon. Humor is OBSERVATION and therefore affected by PERCEPTION standing on all the influencing factors affecting the mode, method, and means utilized to extract stimuli from our environment for use as the largest influence on what we PERCEIVE.

It might just be WE NOT EVEN FROM DA SAME HOOD HOMMIE to find the same thing funny-------MATTA FACT WHAT IF YOUR JOKE AINT EVEN A JOKE TO A NIGGGA....HOW ABOWSDATTTT.

Long story short, sarcasm is sometimes...simply, very simply...nothing more than hostility expressed in cold breath. The passive aggressive man's idea of wit.

The reason why I have taken issue (and disproportionately I absolutely admit) with your seemingly innocuous post is;)

1. I don't think I started a single topic or one with equities involved (I am human and may not recall obviously) where I opened a history topic to bash a clan or a Somali figure person.

2. I have never entered a single topic presenting history or Somali cultural life (and unless there was a legitimate intellectual disagreement) where I ever expressed anything other than encouragement, support, and thanks for expanding our support

3. Yet, forget even supporting let alone even responding in a neutral manner to any historical topic I opened, every single time you have addressed me was to attempt to discourage the information sharing like one of these old passive aggressive cuqdad filled people who find even information as threatening if it isn't about their side.

4. I don't care if the Majerteen kid is presenting information about Cali Yusuf as the biggest expression of faan; wallahi I would absolutely welcome the information and would never attempt to discourage information sharing. I can critique the SUBJECT MATTER, but NEVER THAT IT WAS BROUGHT.

5. People frigging specialize in the Holocaust and within it some specialize in concentration camps. Historical information is historical information. CRITIQUE THE SUBJECT MATTER, THERE IS ZERO JUSTIFICATION FOR DISCOURAGING THAT IT IS EVEN STUDIED OR INFORMATION DISCLOSED.

Only people threatened by the very existence of the information try to shut people up and I have has a special bone to pick with you for that reason.

6. Finally, this all comes down to "Why ONLY Marehan."

The question says more about the rudimentary scholarship in the Somali people. Even the few historians we have were simply regurgitating the limited discourse WITHOUT EXPANDING THE DISCOURSE.

You know why? BECAUSE IT IS ALL GENERALIZED WITH NEVER SPECIALIZED EPISTEMOLOGY.

They do a GENERAL approach and they NEVER GET DEEP ENOUGH TO MAKE A DISCOVERY.

DUDE, PEOPLE STUDY

1. WHY ONE ANIMAL OUT OF 10
2. CARVED ON ONE TOTEM POLE OUT OF 20
3. DISPLAYED IN ONE RESERVATION OUT OF 40
5. IN ONE STATE OUT OF 50
6. IN ONE COUNTRY OUT OF 200

IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN BELIEF SYSTEM.

Ka waran. Why is it an owl or a bear or an eagle and what might that tell us about the human origins with belief system.

So you see my friend, EVEN ASKING, indirectly, WHY regard the subject says the INVERSE

WHY NOT?

Matter of fact the GREATEST HONOR AND APPRECIATION that could ever be bestowed on my work (were I to finish it) WOULD BE NOT ANYTHING I HAVE INFORMED ABOUT MAREHAN, BUT IF I MOTIVATED A MORE SPECIALIZED LOOK AT MAJEERTEEN AT ABGAAL AT HABAR AWAL.

I literally shudder thinking about the DISCOVERY PROCESS IN SOMALI HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY.

We are all ONE piece of the Somali puzzle and what is found about MAREHAN XEER says something about SOMALI XEER and MAJEERTEEN XAAL says something about SOMALI XAAL and ABGAAL XUKUM says something about SOMALI XUKUM and HABAR AWAL XIGMAD ays something about SOMALI XIGMAD.

BUT WE NEVER EVER HAD THAT SPECIALIZED, NARROW FOCUS IN ANY SOMALI HISTORICAL SUBJECT.

NO WONDER THERE HASN'T BEEN MUCH DISCOVERY SINCE IM LEWIS AND CERRULI.

The post-independence Somali historians were trying to take ownership of over their ability to even tell our history.

They deserve zero blame. BUT MY GENERATION AND YOUNGER ARE NOW ENTRUSTED TO TAKE THAT AND GO FURTHER.

I would hope you stop discouraging scholarship if you weren't aware of it.

[Khalid Ali]

Waxani wa wax aad loogu qoslo voltage is writing a book guess what's it about his small subclan. Ilaahoow caqliga hanaga dilin

[qoraxeey]

I support this book

Send me the first copy for free

[Voltage]

Are you going to include Saleebaan SSDF ?

But on the real i wish you scholastic successes in your endeavors regarding the history of my uncles.

I want nothing to do with killings, negativity, or anything that was politically motovated fights.

1. One is a historical survey. I literately only provide an inventory of original information that someone can use if they are writing or interested in the subject.

The most I will contribute my own perspective or thoughts are contextualizing some of the source.

For example, the overwhelming majority of scientists around the world affirm the phenomenon of climate change, but you can still find many scientists who don't.

A historical survey would include in the inventory where to access BOTH positions WITH THE DESCRIPTION "EVEN THOUGH, THESE SCIENTISTS ARGUE AGAINST IT, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF WORLD BODY SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS ARE IN A UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL" and then I would include 3rd party research that confirms this

So basically my own personal opinion is really irrelevant because a historical survey doesn't argue a point.

2. The other book is an informational picture book about important moments like;

• Shire Jama and the language also first magazine,
• Dalays and the first time a Somali woman disseminated Heello over radio in 1952
• Adan Loow and the Walwal Incident,
• Ali Mataan and fling, also first air force commander
• Mohamad Adan Sheekh and the first Somali head of Isbital Martiino
• Abdullajo Haji the longest editor of the BBC,
• Hussein Hanoolaato of SYL at Leego (the guy who pioneered our Motto SOMALIA HANOOLAATO
• Lawaaxe who was the first Somali to get credited a Western university degree
• Sheekh Mohamed Mohamud who was tasked nin 1958 with the committee for drafting the first Somali Constitution
• The Marehan Union Party as the ONLY Somali clan party to win a seat in the First Somali Elections
• The Jeegir Rer Hassan that controlled Nageyle to Gedo having brought Ethiopia and Britain to political heads
• The Anglo-Italian Convention of 1924 that have Jubbaland to Italy BECAUSE of Marehan (I have direct Governo Somalia notes from the Italian Foreign Ministry
• The 1896 Marehan-Italy Treaty in Luuq (yet some shameless people will still argue Siad brought Marehan to Gedo
• Etcwtcsrtc

[STARKAST]

Are you going to include Saleebaan SSDF ?

But on the real i wish you scholastic successes in your endeavors regarding the history of my uncles.

I want nothing to do with killings, negativity, or anything that was politically motovated fights.

1. One is a historical survey. I literately only provide an inventory of original information that someone can use if they are writing or interested in the subject.

The most I will contribute my own perspective or thoughts are contextualizing some of the source.

For example, the overwhelming majority of scientists around the world affirm the phenomenon of climate change, but you can still find many scientists who don't.

A historical survey would include in the inventory where to access BOTH positions WITH THE DESCRIPTION "EVEN THOUGH, THESE SCIENTISTS ARGUE AGAINST IT, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF WORLD BODY SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS ARE IN A UNANIMOUS AGREEMENT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL" and then I would include 3rd party research that confirms this

So basically my own personal opinion is really irrelevant because a historical survey doesn't argue a point.

2. The other book is an informational picture book about important moments like;

• Shire Jama and the language also first magazine,
• Dalays and the first time a Somali woman disseminated Heello over radio in 1952
• Adan Loow and the Walwal Incident,
• Ali Mataan and fling, also first air force commander
• Mohamad Adan Sheekh and the first Somali head of Isbital Martiino
• Abdullajo Haji the longest editor of the BBC,
• Hussein Hanoolaato of SYL at Leego (the guy who pioneered our Motto SOMALIA HANOOLAATO
• Lawaaxe who was the first Somali to get credited a Western university degree
• Sheekh Mohamed Mohamud who was tasked nin 1958 with the committee for drafting the first Somali Constitution
• The Marehan Union Party as the ONLY Somali clan party to win a seat in the First Somali Elections
• The Jeegir Rer Hassan that controlled Nageyle to Gedo having brought Ethiopia and Britain to political heads
• The Anglo-Italian Convention of 1924 that have Jubbaland to Italy BECAUSE of Marehan (I have direct Governo Somalia notes from the Italian Foreign Ministry
• The 1896 Marehan-Italy Treaty in Luuq (yet some shameless people will still argue Siad brought Marehan to Gedo
• Etcwtcsrtc

Its best to keep it not politically motivated, this is best for ones reputation. You know how Somalis get emotional when their biased views are not reinforced or questioned.
A historical survey sounds cool sxb.

Regarding your other projects it sounds interesting all those topics i think are not property published but are not even important Somali history but widely general history.

Also i think there are more other events that can be added to your list too.