Guban, Abdi Latif Ega [essential reading TXT] 📗

passing away the time in deep reflection, or what others would rightfully deem as anxiety about a looming uncertainness over his life, his property.
Twosmo, the wife of Hoagsaday, right after the incident involving the military took place, felt a more ominous feeling in relation to the occurrence ofher husband's unusual arrest. She therefore summoned the driver and was off to a relative to get things done, as that was how things of such magnitude were broached.


The Bloodlines

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The Bloodlines


THERE WAS AN UNWRITTEN LAW THAT WAS INCORPORATED into fabric of life - a hold over from the people and their culture of pastoralism - which was the hierarchy of clan bloodlines. This clan hierarchy was entrenched in religion, government, and in gen­ eral, with all of the Somali. So whatever one was, he was above all a member by blood of a clan. Blood affiliations ran deep in the society, forming the trajectory for all the modern occurrences such as a the modern state, the officials within it, and consequently the society at large. Every philosophy, Western or otherwise, was grounded in this concept of the bloodlines. And it followed that distant clan rivalries were a pretext for altercations in the now.
In this spirit, Twosmo went immediately to a prominent member of weight in the affairs of the clan in the dislocation of the city. Soma­ lia's clan system was based on patrilineal blood relationships, comple­ mented differently by matrilineal blood relations. The male blood line, however, and thus the male, dominated clan affairs. Though Twosmo was particularly aggrieved in the case ofher husband's sud­ den arrest, Hoagsaday's clan could never be represented by her.
The car arrived at the bungalow of her husband's relative, an elderly businessman like Hoagsaday and long time resident of the city of Mogadishu. The gate was open. the car drove into the drive way. Twosmo quickly got out of the car and knocked at the door purposefully in abandon.A worker came to the door and recognized her. As she brushed past him, straight to where the women of the household were sleeping, she quickly explained the situation, wait­ ing anxiously for an audience with the elder.

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