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9 unusual facts about Somali people


Elicarlos

Elicarlos Souza Santos or simply Elicarlos (born June 8, 1985 in Caabudwaaq), is a Somali defensive midfielder.

Khalil Abdulkadir Farah Hersi

One of his poems, for instance, was a commentary on the political situation of the Somali people in the late 1950s, and another, written in 1962, was a protest against the import of foreign cars when the mass of the people were still living in poverty.

Mohamed Aden Sheikh

Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital.

Nomadic pastoralism

It is found in areas of low rainfall such as the Arabian Peninsula inhabited by Bedouins, as well as Northeast Africa inhabited by Somalis (where camel, sheep and goat nomadic pastoralism is especially common).

Radio Cardiff

The regular schedule also includes local news bulletins, and a daily magazine programme broadcast on weekday lunchtimes featuring community news and information; local sports coverage on Saturday afternoons and Monday evenings; a programme presented & produced by 12-18 year olds on Saturday mornings; a show by students from the University of South Wales and a weekly programme for Cardiff's Somali community.

Sheikh Hassan Barsane

Sheikh Hassan Barsane (Somali: Sheekh Xasan Barsane, Arabic:الشيخ حسن بارسني ‏ (1853–1927)) was a Somali cleric who led a revolt against fascist Italian forces after the First World War.

Somali People's Democratic Party

The party observed the eleventh anniversary of its founding in Filtu, where numerous improvements to the infrastructure of the Liben Zone were announced.

In the local elections for the Somali Region, which was held 30 May of that year, the SPDP won 75 seats in 13 kebeles of the Jijiga city council, 4,032 seats in 52 woredas as well as 47,849 seats in 706 kebeles of the Somali Region.

Somali Student Association

Somali Student Association helps to connect Somali Students at the University of Minnesota with an environment of communication and collaboration.


Al-Barakat

Mohammed Sulaymon Barre was a Somali, living in a Pakistani refugee camp, who worked for a Somalia hawala named Dahabshiil, that JTF-GTMO analysts asserted had ties to al-Barakat.

Ali Aden Lord

However, it was concluded at the Lancaster House that Somalis from the non-self governing Somali territory of NFD shared a common political destiny with the rest of Kenya despite the findings of an independent Commission appointed by the British Government that Somalis were in favor of an independence and immediate union with Somalia.

Banda, Uganda

The Somali entrepreneur Amina Moghe Hersi owns Kingstone Enterprises Limited, a cement distributorship, whose headquarters are located in Banda.

Botiala

Somali traders in the region for centuries transported goods such as aromatic woods, gum and incense from the interior of the Horn of Africa to and from the coastal port to conduct trade with Indian, Persian and Arab merchants.

Gabra people

The latter include the Rendille and Somali, all of whom the Gabra describe as warra dassee ("people of the mat"), in reference to the mat-covered, portable tents, which accompany their nomadic lifestyle.

Maydh

According to Augustus Henry Keane, Maydh represents an early center of dispersal of the Somali people.

Mediterranean race

Giuseppe Sergi's much-debated book The Mediterranean Race (1901) argued that the Mediterranean race had in fact originated in Africa, probably in the Sahara region, and that it also included a number of dark-skinned peoples from the African continent (North Africa and the Horn of Africa), such as Ethiopians and Somalis.

Mogadishu Avenue

The name Mogadishu Avenue comes from a nickname of various streets in eastern Helsinki, particularly the main street in Meri-Rastila, where many Somali immigrants live.

National Museum of Somalia

It was built at the request of the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash ibn Sa'id as a residence for the Governor of Mogadishu, Suleiman bin Hamed after he received permission from the Somali Sultan Ahmed Yusuf of the Geledi Sultanate.

Saad Zaghloul

At the time of Zaghloul's arrival in the Seychelles, a number of other prominent anti-imperialist leaders were also exiled there, including Mohamoud Ali Shire, the 20th Sultan of the Somali Warsangali Sultanate, with whom Zaghloul would soon develop a rapport.

Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy

The largest ethnic groups represented in the school include Somalis, Indians, Afghans, Serbians, and many others.

Somali mythology

The Somali people in pre-Islamic times are believed to have adhered to a complex monotheistic belief system, with a set of deities superseded by a single all-powerful figure called Eebe (God, also known as Waaq).


see also

Culture of Somalia

Due to the Somali people's passionate love for and facility with poetry, Somalia has often been referred to as a "Nation of Poets" and a "Nation of Bards", as, for example, by the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.