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@thetipofthehorn

🇸🇴 | 🐪 | Beesha Maryooleey | Autodidact Tolyaqaan + Dalyaqaan |

Isha Adduunyada Katılım Kasım 2021
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The Garesa (stone fort) of Boosaaso [1889] The looming edifice, rising several stories high and constructed using lime & stone, and includes defensive features such as battlements & loopholes for musket fire A fixture in the bloody war over control of the city and coastal trade
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@mustafaadam @GuureSiciid As long as you remain unmarried you still remain a Doob, bachelor is a really good proximate word for it Normally when Doob is used you think of older unmarried men nowadays because of bachelors choosing to not settle down but traditionally it was referring to the younger cohort
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@thetipofthehorn @GuureSiciid Yes, Doob means unmarried bachelor that's older, in other words someone above the normal age men gets married like from mid 20s so I would say average Doob age ranges from 30 to 40s and beyond imo.
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Somali women referring to their beloved or men they’re interested in as Suqaar is a modern phenomenon, historically Somali bachelors were referred to as Doob. Gu or the rainy season was the season of love as well travelled Doobo & Somali maidens would be introduced at waterholes
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@OleMepukori There’s no need for me to defend the martial nature of camel herders, the territorial expansion of camel herders beyond the Tana river and the conflict with other groups and the subsequent British response speaks for itself as far as the historical record goes.
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@OleMepukori You misunderstand friend. A single session of overgrazing makes rearing cattle in the same pastureland virtually impossible to rear cattle in the same pasturage the subsequent yer, its a statement on the precarious nature of cattle. Why somalis call cattle Nugul (weak, soft).
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Stop preaching peace. Protect your land with blood and soul. Your enemies don't under your mzungu platitudes of turning the other cheek.
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@Awiabdi @LohQore @OleMepukori POV: @LohQore extolling the prestige of cattle husbandry as I milk my beloved Idil on our newfound Kenyan pasturelands (After to a single season of grazing the land becomes mine without taking my Toorey out its sheath) Sorry sxb but in the real world the camelboy gets the clay.

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@Misterfisteresq If my memory serves me correctly the audio is from Doollo and the from Mudug. Yeah I’m not a fan of modern lingo either. I find its simplicity vulgar when you compare to the rich allegorical/metaphorical/referential nature of traditional terminology. Feels like a step-down.
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Aideed@Misterfisteresq·
@thetipofthehorn Man I love this video so much. From Nogob district I think. On the quoted tweet I know it's subjective but calling a love interest 'suqaar' is goofy to me personally lol. Pretty sure the furthest thing from poetic, like calling me 'fajita' or something
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@GuureSiciid It means unmarried bachelors, it’s not age specific beyond describing single men past the age of puberty. On average geeljire got married and got out of the camel camp roughly some time in their mid twenties.
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@Awiabdi @LohQore @OleMepukori POV: @LohQore extolling the prestige of cattle husbandry as I milk my beloved Idil on our newfound Kenyan pasturelands (After to a single season of grazing the land becomes mine without taking my Toorey out its sheath) Sorry sxb but in the real world the camelboy gets the clay.
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Awale Abdi | عواله عبدي@Awiabdi·
To be fair, camels made Horner pastoralists a lot more mobile and able to also thrive in much more arid areas given that they’re browsers like goats. Trade and movement ramped up with their introduction. Cattle are great but pretty subpar in comparison in desert regions. The breeds that thrive in the same environments as camels are often quite spindly and low yield in regards to meat and milk. Cattle are still pretty prevalent in more fertile areas of Somaliweyn, tho. You’d be surprised at the cattle vs camel headcounts in some parts of Koonfur and the interior of the Northwest.
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@Fulani2021 @Xamid_23 makes you appreciate Bari Cariish. Coastal hooyooyinka were in a league of their own.
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Fulani ¦ فلاتة@Fulani2021·
جلسة أُنس لشبان من عشيرة الويلا الرعوية في صعيد ولاية القضارف شرق السودان.
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@UgaasDiddy It had a mixed reputation in the past since foreign troops like the British K.A.R had used it as a part of their uniforms so it developed a dishonourable reputation to the Darawiish similar to puttees and large turbans but its reputation was salvaged by later Somali nationalists.
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‘we will go to Bamako and various African countries, God willing. This is not confined solely to northern Mali’ The kind of ambition foreign to the Somali. Why can’t we dream of conquering Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, South Sudan, Sudan & Eritrea?
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Dilawar Karwan@RashmanTheHorse

Extremely personal for Iyad Ag Ghaly. He began his career as a Tuareg national separatist. He was in various Tuareg revolts. Iyad there when Ansar Dine took Kidal in 2012, and he reportedly wanted to conquer all of Mali at that time. An account from someone who knew him:

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@frossfross1 @hornaristocrat This a good visualizer, this cape was infamous for shipwrecks. One of the dangers of the mist was the assumption by novice/disoriented seaman that Buur Xambi was Gees Gardafuul and preemptively turn The lowlands between Raas Shannaqiif & Raas Caseyr would appear as the open sea
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Abbasid historian & Geographer Al-Masūdi (d.985) mentioning the sailors departing from Oman to Gulf of Aden & Indian Ocean, sailing through the coast of Ras Hafun, Northern Somali Peninsula, it was so terrifying that they started to make supplication to Allah SWT He said:
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We still have some room for improvement, we need to take it further. ‘Ratigaannu carraabinoo’ ‘Mandaddii u cabbaynnay’ ‘The male pack camel in midday rut’ ‘Burdened with a heavy load’ The she-camel is the beloved mother of Somali men, time for the father to step up.
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Will Swanson@willswanson

Tactical donkey in Almiskaad, Puntland

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Two of the world’s hegemons being compelled to either modify or create entirely new small arms and light weapons munitions due to their inability to incapacitate their newfound Somali adversaries. Indubitably one of the most martial races the African continent has produced.
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@Xamid_23 @GuureSiciid @Tanade23 Xakame would be the bridle/generic term for horse tack. Sitaac would be the ornament on the neck. Heense would be the saddle and ornaments. Rakaab would be the stirrups. Unique photograph insofar as he’s carrying a Masalle on his shoulder.
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Tanade 🦌@Tanade23·
Marriage of the Son of the Gasargude Garaad of Luuq dating from 1896
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@frossfross1 @hornaristocrat Wind wouldn’t be a major factor outside the psychological aspect of the eerie sounds produced by contact with crevices & caverns The danger and shipwrecks mainly came from limited visibility. The seasonal monsoons would create cyclones producing mist that would hamper navigation
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‏المدغاوي@frossfross1·
@hornaristocrat Very interesting, it makes very sense now with the map you posted, alot of the shipwrecks going through that area used to happen so often back in the days
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🧵In Somali poetry, references to 'Timirtii Basra' (Basran dates) are frequent, with the fruit being a staple of the nomadic Somali diet Grown along the banks of the Shatt Al-Arab, 1906 Basran date exports to British Somaliland totalled approx. £2.2 million in modern value.
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