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Somaliland
Film · documentary
Directed by Ben Powell
SOMALILAND follows five Somali students applying to US universities from the unrecognized African country of Somaliland. They seek the best educations in the world in order to develop their nation in the future. But for over thirty years, no students from Somaliland have been accepted to American universities. The students all hail from Abaarso School, a new American-run high school founded by a former hedge fund manager with no experience in education. Just as his young school begins to provide life-changing opportunities to his students, elements of society begin conspiring against him leaving his students' progress and dreams precariously hanging in the balance.
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Somaliland is one of the more interesting countries in the world, became independent back in 1991 and has been a regional success story with a complete absence of foreign aid or intervention, yet still are not recognised internationally. Far more viable as a nation state than Somalia, where intervention has continually worsened affairs..
Here is a documentary on Somaliland from the BBC by Simon Reeve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRET1fHLWdE
The spread of mobile money like Zaad and the more famous m-Pesa may well eventually cause systemic instability, but this is only really likely if the next step is taken, extending credit based on mobile monetary accounts.
The remittance angle will be incredibly interesting given crypto coin developments..