What was so amazing about Axmed Xasan Cawke? It wasn’t his soothing voice or the lineage he was born into or the town he grew up in. No, Cawke’s qualities were far more grandeur. He is best remembered for his unwavering principles, his optimistic attitude towards a fragile group – his Somali people — forever […]
Oct 27 2015
Maxamuud Xarbi: We must achieve independence, we prefer death to life under the aegis of imperialism
Maxamuud Xarbi (1921-1960) a Somali hero that warrants eternal remembrance for he was one of the few Somali historical characters that put the dream of universal Somali brotherhood on a massive pedestal. His life account is all too known and his mysterious murder still lingers the mind of the Somali oldies. Maxamuud Xarbi shared the […]
Oct 22 2015
Baardheere Religious Scholars
Illustrations of Baardheere’s (Gedo) past traditional Islaamic scholars. They were part of a community (Jamaaca) established in Baardheere in 1819/1821 by Sheekh Ibraahim Xasan Yeberow, a Sufi reformer. What was distinctive about this establishment is that in an age where Somalis were divided along clan lines; this particular community was compromised of hundreds of students […]
Oct 22 2015
Fiinlow
In a small village named Fiinlow (south-west of Marka), a war campaign by a formidable Somali force was mounted close to 120 years ago. A village forever engraved in Somalia’s history, where over thousands of Somali warriors lost their lives resisting colonial rule against a well-armed colonial force. It was a campaign carefully coordinated with […]
Sep 26 2015
Nasiib Buundo: a forgotten Somali Bantu anti-colonial leader
Nasiib Buundo was born in 1835 to a Yao community in northern Mozambique. His original name was Makanjira Zamani. At the age of 20, he was captured by raiders loyal to the infamous Zanzibari slave trader Tippu Tip, and was subsequently shipped to southern Somalia where he worked in plantation fields in the Somali coastal […]
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