The Invention of SomaliaAli Jimale Ahmed The first real attempt by scholars on Somalia to identify and analyze the basic assumptions which had informed the construction of the now discredited Somalia myth. |
Contents
CAMELS INTELLECTUALS ORIGINS AND DANCE | 63 |
MYTH OR REALITY | 81 |
DAYBREAK IS NEAR WONT YOU BECOME SOUR? GOING | 135 |
IDENTITY DANCE AND ISLAM AMONG PEOPLE | 186 |
ON CRITIQUES OF THE INVENTION OF SOMALIA | 223 |
APPENDIX 1 | 257 |
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Abgaal Ahmar-Dharoor Ahmed ancestors Arab Arab Factor Banadir coast Bantu Barre's Benadir Brava Cali camel Cassanelli century Cerulli clan families coastal colonial communities culture Cumar Dahaloan dances Darood Declich descendants dialects dikri early East Africa Eastern Horn economic Ethiopia Gaaljecel Galla Garre gender Gosha area groups Hawiye Helander history of Somalia Horn of Africa I. M. Lewis Ibid identity important Invention Isaaq Islam Italian jareer Jiiddu Jubba River Jubba Valley lineage linguistic matrilineal Maxamed Maxay migration Mogadishu Mohamed Muhammad Mukhtar Muslim mviko nation nomadic North-Lowland northern oral tradition origin Oromo pastoral playing the drums poems political population proto Proto-Reewin Reer Reewin clan region religious Rendille rituals riverine role scholars Shabelle River Shaikh Uways Sheekh Slavery slaves social Somali clan Somali history Somali intellectuals Somali language Somali society Somali Studies Somali women Somali-speaking Soomaali southern Somalia Swahili tion Ulama University village woman word