The Role of Loyalty and common solidarity

It seems that Somalis attach more importance to their clan pride rather than offer loyalty to the leadership of the nation. The British writers in their days of occupying Somalia described the Somalis as a nation of bards and prideful. In fact prideful is useless in terms of building common goals and interest. Their should be loyalty and hierarchy for the common interest of the entire citizens. Personal pride is more destructive than building constructive goals. Pride is for individual lives, not for collective interest. We are all instruments, in the good sense, to be wielded in the interest of the national goals. Nomadic lives in the form of leading isolated lives may give good name to the concerned , but in the interest of collective goal, loyalty and hierarchy and rule of law are necessary factors that every individual is required to observe. As a civil value, cleaning together the street in front of the houses by all the residents is a necessary activity which serves all the residences. This is a part of needed cooperation and building civil values. Colleagues who attended courses at the college of education in early seventies narrate that the American man who was in charge of the college used to visit dorms and the adjacent areas and he used to collect and clear away garbage while students were in classes. This kind of simplicity based on discharging a task is needed to help us. It is not time to build individual goals , instead it is time to construct avenues of common values and collective benefit. Thanks. Anur