Without the work of Somali archivists and historians on platforms like X, vital elements of our history and culture would face the very real danger of vanishing, quietly erased from collective memory. Not long ago, while going through some of my father’s papers, I came across a remarkable collection: documents from the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), a nationalist movement that fought to liberate the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region from Ethiopian rule and unite it with Somalia. WSLF fighters rallying in…