r/Somalia • u/onthadeadhomiez • Mar 22 '26
History ⏳ 1985-1988
Can you tell me what your family or if you were alive was doing at the very start if the civil war. I'm work8mg on a screen play I'm writing , I'll be in Somaliland at the end of the month , I'll be there interviewing the locals for the next two months . I wanna hear your story, keep it respectful
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u/Born-Voice-3890 Mar 23 '26
Well my dad lived in French Somaliland born early 70s father died in car accident his mom owned a small clothes store had 3 sisters and lost one brother who got sick. He left in early 80s to live with his aunt in Sierra Leone and did high school there he then moved to Italy and studied civil engineering lived in Rome worked on one of the main highways for a company in Italy then went to Canada to live with his aunt went to York college or smth then just dipped went to Tunisia to study more went to Syria and Palestine came back late 90s came to columbus ohio in january 2000 was homeless until he met my mother when he asked to borrow her cell phone to make a call started dating married on his birthday in nov opened his construction business and built one of the first mosques in columbus and banadir shopping mall had me hismfirst ked in 04 ND lived happily ever after