Young people must cast off the restraints that hold them back and harness their full potential.
Somalia’s Youth Are Tired of Waiting — and They’re Redefining Power
In Mogadishu’s bustling Bakara Market, where new smartphones and secondhand books share the same tarp, you meet a generation raised online but boxed in offline. They scroll through global ideas and opportunities on cracked screens, yet face a political landscape at home that feels both fixed and far away. This is the quiet paradox of Somalia today: a young, connected society living under an older, disconnected politics.
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