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@AfricanAstro
Sep 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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A 🧵on Somali seamen and their resilient community in Cardiff Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 Image
1⃣ Somali men at a Cafe in Cardiff Image
2⃣ The Habar Awal clan were the majority of the seamen in Cardiff and had a strong money pooling system to support one another in case of need. Image
3⃣ When hard times befell them, the HA men refused ⛪️aid citing their Islamic faith forbidding them to do so Image
4⃣ Abby Farah was a notable Welsh Somali from Cardiff & was Undersecretary General of the 🇺🇳

He was instrumental in freeing Nelson Mandela and fighting apartheid Image

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Jul 12, 2021
Somalis having early Zaydi Shia influence?

'Caliphate rule' is a probably not true but later observations by Dimaqshi and Ibn Battuta are interesting.

Examples of Sufi poetry will be given below regarding the author's point of Fatima RA holding a high reverence amongst Somalis.
Here are the maanso in Somali and English. Some lines were clipped for the sake of length and Ali RA is mentioned in these poems as well.
Sources in chronological order

- The Arab Factor in Somali History
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- Sufi Poetry in Somali its Themes and Imagery

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- Ali Abdirahman Hersi
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- Abdisalam Yassin Mohamed
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Jun 26, 2021
A history of the 1958 Berbera riots and Maxamed Jamaac Urdoh of the Somali National League (SNL)

The SNL was the major political party of Somaliland and had several nationalist figures incl Urdoh who would lead the party at one point
The transfer of Somali territory (Hawd & Reserved Area) to 🇪🇹 control by the 🇬🇧 angered many and particularly communities who lived over the new border

With the visit of MP Bernard Baines and MP Austen Albu to Berbera, Maxamed Jamaac organised a disruption of their tour
Their visit was to gauge the situation as the transfer had caused instability in Somaliland and energized existing political parties.

A crowd 500 strong formed and would surround and stone the car the MPs and District Commissioner were travelling on, shouting slogans etc.
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