THE ISSUE OF CADAAN-STUDIES AND THE SOMALI INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY A long-drawn-out debate about the inaugural issue of the Somaliland Journal of African Studies has been pontificating by a group of people, who imaginarily believe as they are the only existing Somali academic warriors. To a certain extent, it is palpable that the academic and political misfortune will never expunge from the minds of the Somalis. Over and above, the aim behind the doctrine of Cadaan-Studies that people tracked in the social media since February 2015 was nothing more than political treachery. But fortunately, what failed the inoperable political project and enlightened the reality was the calligraphy of the Somali Youth League. The tribute of SYL was the main thesis and the strong argument of Abdi Samater for the last thirty years. As Professor Abdi Samater (1989) pointed out ‘’in 1943 the first modern nationalist movement, the Somali Youth Club, was founded. The club changed its name to the Somali Youth League and became a full-fledged political machine with offices and officers with all the Somalilands except Djibouti (French Somaliland), the first time specified an independence date, which was to be 1960 for Somalia’’. This biased argument shows the intellectual dishonesty, which resulted an academic mind-numbing and lacklustre, especially when it comes the deliberately overlooked element of academia in social research methods. Because Samater’s aim was to purposefully obliterate the good nationalist history of Somaliland, including the veterans, such as Farah Omaar and Sayid Mohamed Abdillah Hassan, who both deserved to be mentioned because of their credentials of anti-colonialism ideology. But his sociological imaginations and reflexivity desired the British Made unschooled restaurant owners of SYL. In addition to this, Safia Aidid, the historian PhD candidate who is the thespian of Cadaan- Studies acts as if she is the avant-gardist, or in other words, the founder of the scheme reiterated the political footsteps of Abdi Samater. Safia posted on her Facebook status ‘’the first Somali anti-colonial nationalist organisation, the Somali Youth Club, later renamed the Somali Youth League was founded on May 15, 1943 in Mogadishu. They opened offices across the Somali territories and led a mass political movement which culminated Somalia’s in 1960’’. The above sentences completely refers the very same argument of Abdi Samater, but Safia only rephrased and failed to quote the reference. This was not by mistake or an academic plagiarism, but a deliberate occurrence in order to fool the people whom she conceived their loyalty.