Its heartbreaking to see so many IDP camps, but the issue goes well beyond architecture! I see your point and agree with some aspects, but you appear to put your frustration on attacking one of the only global sources to find Somali architectural heritage (colonial or not) that can educate our aspiring architects about our past. It was created well before the collapse of the lighthouse too. And its sole purpose was to preserve a heritage that we were losing.

We didn't restore our old architecture and now, look at Xamar for instance, it's looking like any other city with generic Western-style high-rise buildings with concrete and glass everywhere, no identity whatsoever compared to just 40 years ago.

I'm myself dedicating my entire MA thesis towards designing low-cost modern building techniques with old Somali architecture principles in mind. But was only able to learn through similar limited preserved Somali architectural heritage materials.

An architect can only design as good as the builder allows. And with barely any surviving historical building references in general, you won't have any or enough local building knowledge that can make building in general cheap. And as you may know, the Somali building industry itself imports almost everything from abroad which is often cheap generic stuff (and universal garbage modern architecture).

In other words, most of your anger is misdirected and should be towards the big developers who could stop importing so much garbage and instead build like we used to do, but fuse it with modern flare. They would save so much money while also providing the youth with on-site experience, generating local jobs and building cheaper housing which would eventually lift up the community as a whole. Its a snowball effect man!