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Mad_Mullah

How South Somalia should look like

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I love the Swahili design - it feels East African -- with some hints of Arabian in there. [My Somali Supremacy fantasies includes that the most southern border of the Somali Empire is Mombasa, but now it seems Kismayo is their border city :D]

 

What we have today is people just wanting to build new buildings that do not reflect Somali history, basically like Bosaso and Hargeisa, cities that have no cultural buildings. They feel fake.

 

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*ANWAR*;976519 wrote:
Mad-Mullah you have to go down to Mogadishu ASAP and try out as city architect!!

:) We have to stop the qurba joogta with their ugly bland buildings. They are ruining our heritage.

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Even the North needs to jump on. Go for a Somali look rather than trying to be *new* cause it will never look modern unless it becomes like Dubai but we can create majestic sights. It's not just large buildings but small things such as doors, windows etc. Look at old day Bosaso:

 

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You have to work with what you have the South needs to have that tropical feeling with white buildings - palm trees. etc. The north would have more of an Arabian feeling.

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Mad_Mullah;976521 wrote:
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We have to stop the qurba joogta with their ugly bland buildings. They are ruining our heritage.

I agree. These buildings look much better. Where is this? Are these past or current pictures?

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Bluelicious;976632 wrote:
I agree. These buildings look much better. Where is this? Are these past or current pictures?

They are from our neighbors down south. Mombasa, Lamu, Malinidi (Kenya) and Zanzibar (Tanzania).

 

It strongly shows their heritage and history - something lacking in our buildings even though our history is greater than theirs. Because we along with the Turks saved their asses

 

Over the next several decades Somali-Portuguese tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried the Portuguese who sent a punitive expedition against Mogadishu under João de Sepúlveda, which was unsuccessful.[34] Ottoman-Somali cooperation against the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean reached a high point in the 1580s when ******** clients of the Somali coastal cities began to sympathize with the Arabs and Swahilis under Portuguese rule and sent an envoy to the Turkish corsair Mir Ali Bey for a joint expedition against the Portuguese. He agreed and was joined by a Somali fleet, which began attacking Portuguese colonies in Southeast Africa.[35]

 

The Somali-Ottoman offensive managed to drive out the Portuguese from several important cities such as Pate, Mombasa and Kilwa. However, the Portuguese governor sent envoys to Portuguese India requesting a large Portuguese fleet. This request was answered and it reversed the previous offensive of the Muslims into one of defense. The Portuguese armada managed to re-take most of the lost cities and began punishing their leaders, but they refrained from attacking Mogadishu.[36] Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries successive Somali Sultans defied the Portuguese economic monopoly in the Indian Ocean by employing a new coinage which followed the Ottoman pattern, thus proclaiming an attitude of economic independence in regard to the Portuguese.[37]

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