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By Adam Jibril
My condolence to the president of the Republic of Somaliland and the
nation at large as well as his friends in ideas and outlook, to fallen
hero of Somaliland, Mohamoud Salex Nour Fagadhe, my heartfelt condolence
to the president and to the entire people of Somaliland. The lost of
such a great personality like Mahamoud Saslex Nour (Fagadge) who has
been a very intimate believer of modernity and secularism, not because
it has a beautiful sound but because he believed in it as embodiment of
the general good of Somalis and African people in making history of
their own. His idea has an inspiring impact in my future life. He as an
intellectual we shared the idea that the post Colonial Africa needs new
thinking and new approaches towards development and reformation and
Somaliland experiment of peace building based on bottom up
reconciliation is the most appropriate approach for Africa’s path to
modernity and democratization.
Fagadhe had strong influence in my future thinking when in 1959 as ten
year old lad sow me off at the Eden Sea Port on my trip to Cairo
Scholarship and gave me a book of Mohamoud amiin Al-alam the Egyptian
writer and progressive philosopher, which at the time I did not
understand but after 13 years later did. Fagadhe was internationally a
son of his time, he had little to do with Somali Cultural outlook of
clannism. He was true to the common human values of the time, 21st
Century.
I had with him a lot of disagreements on many of contemporary issues but
one thing I want to underline is that he was adamant to knowledge and
uncompromised to recognize that religious extremism of Muslim, Christian
or Jews are the common challengers to the human civilization of our
time, he believed the historical interpretation of theory of conspiracy.
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