#araweelo

Arraweelo wanted women to rule the Somali society, she thought they were more efficient and reliable. Men were ordered to subservience during her reign.

Growing up, I was terrorised by tales of how arraweelo castrated and enslaved men. Her legacy is mired by Androcide! (Genocide of men).

The older me however, does have a different opinion.

Like our brethren the Tumaal, madhibaan and Yibir, Arraweelo's legacy was distorted by the Somali patriarchy. We will never the truth unfortunately, for someone to unite the fractured and divided somali nomadic clans and tribes must undoubtedly have been a formidable task. The political, diplomatic and military planning required must have been on another level.

Riverside towers on West Bank, home to many of Somali Minnesotans, and the planned setting of K’Naan’s HBO television series. 

A planned television series set in Minnesota’s Somali community sparked protests at Saturday’s West Bank block party on September 10. Angry and tired of being characterized as jihadi recruits or recruiters, Minnesota Somali youth protested Somali Canadian rapper K’naan’s…