When Somalia gained independence on July 1, 1960. It was a unification of the British Somaliland, French Somaliland, northeastern Kenya, western Ethiopia and Italian Somalia to form what we call the country of Somalia today.
Somalia was once considered as the Africa’s great hopes, attributed to Somalia’s cultural unity of the five regions pointed towards an easier path to democracy than other newly-independent African nations that struggled to incorporate the competing claims of varying ethnic groups.
In this episode Stephen looks into Somalia, a country in turmoil, and looks into how it got there and what's going to happen next.

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