Hargeisa’s independence celebration site had no cultivated plants

Evidence

The major celebratory event in Hargeisa was held in Beerta Xoriyada (Freedom Garden). Osman jokingly remarked, “What garden?” since there were no flowers or cultivated plants, only naturally grown acacia. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1328

Categorization

• CANDY: A light, humanizing moment of Somalia’s first president joking at his own independence celebration.
• XREF: connects to: Osman joked that Hargeisa’s so-called Freedom Garden had no actual plants.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Osman joked that Hargeisa’s so-called Freedom Garden had no actual plants.