National development requires faith in a future golden age, not material promises

Evidence

To break through the barriers of stagnation in a backward country, to ignite the imagination of men [and women], … a stronger medicine is needed than the promise of better allocation of resources or even of the lower price of bread… . What is needed … is faith—faith … that the golden age lies not behind but ahead… . [This] calls for a New Deal in emotions. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1120

Categorization

• XREF: The quoted appeal echoes the kind of ideological mobilizing language this book’s two subjects presumably practiced in building Somalia’s first democratic party system.