The Accies' season kicks off tomorrow with a 5 a side session at GOALS, Elmers End, from 8-10pm. Should be good fun and an excellent way to gain a bit of post Christmas match fitness.
Some Accies have chosen to avoid the cold and do a bit of brain training instead.In an Accies first, we are also going to field a pub quiz team at the Paxton.
Hopefully we'll be prepared when the Oppo ask questions of us next week - that is so long as the question they ask is 'What's the capital of Somalia?'
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Really looking forward to getting some footy in again, it has been far to quiet without it. See you up there guys.
Thanks for sorting the booking Phil, looking forward to it.
There have been opposite ideas, different concepts, and other appellations of the vast (280000 km1) region. I want to herewith clarify my position in this regard.
Certainly, the inhabitants of Ogaden are all Somalis, with the exception of few hundreds of administrative and military oppressors sent there from the capital of the Abyssinian empire that has illegally controlled the area following unlawful colonial arrangements that date back in the 1950s.
A Triangle Called Somalia
Consequently, the land of Ogaden is an integral part of Somalia, and as such it consists in Somalia´s main inland, being surrounded by the coastal areas that shape the two sides (from Djibouti to the Horn, and from the Horn to Kenya) of the Somali Triangle.
The Greater (and only true) Somalia is in fact a triangular land.
The third side, vaguely drawn from Tadjoura (Afar part of Djibouti) straight to Mombassa (Kenyan coastland), demarcates the lands of the Somalis (in the east) and the Afars and the Oromos (in the west).
Because of its geographical position, Ogaden represents most the Somali West. It has therefore also been called Western Somalia. But the term is only geographical, and it goes back to the times of Somalia´s colonization.
As political term, it was used only because of the anti-Ogadeni vicious hatred and rancor of the Amhara and Tigray elites that dates back to the early 16th century.
Western Somalia: a Politically Ineffective Term
As political term, Western Somalia is totally ineffective. A similar, ill-fated, attempt, in guise of example, would be if Pakistan was named ´Western India´ or Kosova was called ´Northeastern Albania´. Totally out of purpose!
In fact, geographical terms in the official name of any country (North Korea, East Germany) denote problems – always!
In the case of Ogaden and Somalia, an appellation ´Western Somalia´ would only highlight the negative historical development when in 1960 Somalia became an independent nation, without incorporating (as it should have) Ogaden, and the Somali parts of Kenya and Djibouti, which are two useless pseudo-countries consisting in mere colonial fabrications.
It is therefore essential for all the Ogadenis and all the Somalis to go ahead, and put a tombstone on the malefic Anglo-French colonialism that opened Pandora´s box throughout Eastern Africa.
I hope this answers your question and helps in the quiz.
The above answers the question: how easy is it to cut-and-paste stuff off the internet?
"Some Accies have chosen to avoid the cold and do a bit of brain training instead."
SHOCKING.
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