Case Study about Mid-Decade Review Of Progress towards Education: Somalia Country
The origins of the Somali people can be traced to two genealogical lines; the Sab and the Samale. The Sab are predominantly agriculturists and mainly inhabit the interriverine region of the southern part of the country. Ethnically, they can be identified as a mixture of Somali and other Bantu populations, whereas the Samale refers to those Somali groups who are mostly situated in the northern regions. Despite the existence of this dichotomy, the Somali people share an over-arching culture with one language that can be understood by a majority, or 95 percent, of the population — a language that has been categorized as part of the Afro-asiatic branch and the Eastern Cushitic sub-branch of languages.
Nearly one hundred years after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, which directly encouraged western colonialism in the Horn of Africa, Somalia became an independent and unified state. In June 1960 the Somali Republic was established out of the merger between the Italian “Trust Territory” and the British Protectorate. This merger was not the logical outcome of a well-designed plan; rather, it signified the inevitable end of a century-old struggle for colonial domination. Already in 1936, Italy had sought to establish La Grande Somalia by extending its occupation to Ethiopia and in 1941 to the British Protectorate. Thereafter, from 1941 to 1950, the British Military Administration that arose during the Second World War controlled the whole of Somalia. Keep reading…
