Somali cabinet ministers largely lacked managerial experience when independence governance began

Evidence

The cabinet’s obliviousness to the importance of public opinion was in part attributable to the limited political experience of most of its leaders. For example, four of the ministers had never worked in an office and therefore had no managerial know-how. The gulf between the ministers’ experience and the daunting challenge of building national institutions in an environment of deep poverty and high illiteracy was compounded by discord within the party and government. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 345

Categorization

• CANDY: That four of the first Somali ministers had literally never worked in an office before is a striking, conversation-friendly detail about the inexperience behind decolonization.