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 […]
Sep 26 2015
Muuse Galaal anti colonialism – anecdote
One of Somalia’s greatest intellectuals, Muuse Galaal (RH), was transiting through Kenya in the 1970s. When it was time for him to board his connecting flight, he jumped up and found himself first in the queue. A long queue, consisting of tired and restless passengers from assorted nationalities. Suddenly, he noticed airport officials tapping the […]
Sep 26 2015
Axmed Teerso (Ahmed Terso) – Somali martyr
Not many of us know about this Somali hero named Col. Axmed Teerso. Born in Hiiraan in 1934 and martyred in Godey in 1977. The battle of Godey was one of the entry points of the Somalo-Ethio war and perhaps the most decisive one. There was a deadlock at the Godey’s main bridge for a […]
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