Allgedo Article, March
28, 2008
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The Future of Somalia
is tied to the leaders it produces
By Ashkir Ali
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Columbus, Ohio
The future of many nations has mostly
been tied to the personal talent of its
leaders. History has provided us with
several instances from time immemorial
with lucid examples of the Roman
civilization and Nazi Germany to name a
few. Since the impact of leadership is
immense on the society, to talk about it
becomes inevitable.
Although many scholars have wrote on the
subject of leadership, most of them
automatically assume that leadership is
somehow synonymous with goodness and
virtue, but it has been proven good
leadership can be thought or train for
someone, history teaches us the best and
most talented leaders in the world were
god given talent or self made. In that
sense the challenges that many African
countries face can be blamed for bad
leadership, talent, poor decision making
and arrogance.
Since Somalia blanched into civil war
early 1991 there were a hand full of so
called leaders or I might say “warlords”
and each and every one of them were
imitating one of the other, first and
foremost it is not a good thing to
pretend some one that you are not,
second as I mention earlier in my
writing leadership can be thought but
the person whose learning must be
willing to fulfill a set of steps in
order he/she to became a good leader, if
you do not follow these set of rules
then your accomplishment will be cut
short, imagine where the teacher is the
student and the student is the teacher.
That is why these warlords do not need
to pretend one of the other, in order to
become a good leader you need to have a
passion for leadership, you need to be
a fierce nationalist, you need to stay
away from tribalism and you need to
sacrifice what ever you think you can
lose. Mean time while several books
explain how one can become a successful
leader and build all the skills and
qualities required for such a role,
there hardly has been any effort in
dwelling on the nuances of bad
leadership and incompetence.
Bad Leadership is a stimulating
digression from this kind of traditional
thinking. However you put it bad
leadership is why my beloved Somali
nation has been suffering so long, the
nation that ones defeated the so called
lions of Africa in their turf, became
the third strongest nation in black
Africa, the moral of this article is not
only to write about the situation of
Somalia but to enlighten the majority of
our youth and to unveil the dirty
tactics these bad leaders are using, so
for our youth there is nothing to wait,
no one to count on but to engage
political movement that can change the
bad leaders that became a leaders by
default.
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