Somali elders saw accepting bribes as disgrace that would ruin family honor

Evidence

Egal and the team found they had struck a rock of integrity when the old man retorted, “If I do what you are asking me, then who will marry my daughter as I will be so disgraceful.” — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 995

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s knowledge of Somali oral culture and clan-based honor codes; also echoes moral-economy ideas in other chapters of this book about Somali political integrity.