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(1)
The Black Bantu/Jareer
(Negroid
Features).
The Bantus or
Jareer are
living in
Southern Somalia
up to Ethiopia
and Kenya, they
are Called
Bantu/ jarreer
meaning (Kinky
Hair) as the
opposed name is
timo jilee’
(Soft Hair).
They are divided
into many sub
clans, such as
reer shabelle,
Makane, shidle,
mushungli, Gosha
etc.
Historically
Somalis treat
Bantu as
descendants of
slaves and
Negroid groups.
They are
agriculture
community living
beside Somali
rivers, mainly,
the Bantu sub
clans are
agricultural
community which
reside beside
and across the
rivers, they
performing, all
hand-crafts,
small hand
industries,
fishing and boat
building,
blacksmith,
carpentry,
tannery, leather
products,
hairdressing,
metal work which
Somalis consider
all that as
menial work or
tasks.
(2) The white
skin Gibil ‘ad (Banadiri
clans).
The white
includes the
Banadiri sub
groups including
Bravenese,
Bajuni, Bajuun,
Banadiri-Ashraf
and Jaji. This
Banadiri group
is a collection
of various
ethnic groups
under this
umbrella name.
It is further
sub-divided into
white, and
black. The black
group includes
Dhabarweyn
(Bantu).
Banadiri groups
are urban people
living mainly in
the coastal
cities of
Mogadishu, Merca
renamed
Mogadishu and
Benadir,
constitute a
clear example of
this type of
manipulation.
The name does
not correspond
to any well
defined
sociological
reality. It
rests on an
administrative
entity whose
citizens do not
merit the name "Benadiri"
any more than
the people of
Rift Valley
province in
Kenya would
merit the name "Riftians.
The Benadir
Protectorate was
a Colonial
designation
centred around
the city of
Mogadishu and
Brava). The
Banadiri
Community are
divided to minor
tribes e.g., the
Bandhabow, the
Morshe-
Iskashato, the
bdisamad, the
Sadiq GedT, the-
Bafadal, the
Amudi, the
Duruqo, the rer
Shikh, the rer
anyo, the
Gudmane in
Hamar-Weyne
section and the
rer Faqi in
Shangani
section.
c)
Number-wise
discriminated
groups (NDGs).The
group can be
categorized as
minorities based
on their fewer
populations or
numbers although
the number
crosscuts all
other groups. It
warthy to
mention that
this group
doesn’t face any
social and
economic
exclusion
similar to Bantu
and Occupational
groups. This
group includes
Somali clans who
mainly do not
belong to any of
the four major
Somali tribes
such as Hawiye,
Isaaq, Daraod
and Digile &
Midhifle. This
group includes
Ashraf, Sheikhal,
Eyleh,
Qalimoshube,
Akisho, Madigan,
Gurgure, Arab,
Gahayle, Lo’jir,
Herla, Garjante,
Ashraf, Meheri (Arabta
reer Mohamed
Salah), Ajuran,
Yahar,
Arab-Somali, and
Reer Aw Xassan
in Somalia.
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