This has started as a test to myself, not as an article or poetry intended to share with others. I just wanted to see if i can look Somalia from different perspectives in the shortest way possible, touching eight or more major issues of history, identity, culture, language, Ethnicity, Evolution, Transition, and ask myself why are we going all through this process of disintegration and finallyI wanted to make a conclusion of my observation. My intention was to compile it all in less than half a page. This is a tough intellectual exercise which I would like to throw as a challenge to writers, poets and scholars from around the world whom I so deeply appreciate and respect. The challenge is that the half-page text should contain the above mentioned words and could be on any subject you may wish to take. You can also take your country or any other country you are interested in or you can take any other issue. This is how I did it, please let me see yours:

History is not only the trails you leave behind but it is also the light that shows you the way forward. If a nation has no yesterday to claim as its past it will probably have no tomorrow to look up and, seriously speaking, it will be no where visible in the map of Today´s World. Without a past to refer there will be no future for any nation. Think of Somalia which has ceased to exist as a nation-state in 1991, Haven´t its history and identity as a nation-state ceased to exist, too? And what about the culture? It is clear that Somalia´s cultural industry is at the brink of a total collapse since we are not producing culture on collective basis, under the banner of one state. It is affected by the fragmentation of the nation into pieces of tribal lands, with one land emerging after another at an alarming pace. In addition to that, the 21-year-long disintegration which has mainly affected the Southern part of Somalia led to a faltered growth f our language. I seldom ask myself “Why is this happening to us?” and as I fumble for a possible reply to my question, I end up in saying “ I think we are undergoing a process of evolution whereby Somalis are coming out from a primitive stage of tribal-based groups to a fairly advanced level of ethnicity to live in peace with other communities in the Horn" However, we should know that the period of Transition and subsequent recovery from effects of a failed state are extremely rigorous.