Colonial description of Somalis

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SilentE1001

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Just came across this online, I remember half of them I remember my grandparents trekking me and laughed when I saw them online. They made me laugh and they're all still kinda true:

"A Somali always felt himself to be twice as good as any white man, or any other kind of man at all, and still does, even when he is wrong. Islam does wonders for the self respect of non-white people and Christianity is right to worry about the spread of Islam in Africa, and must honestly face the question of why it has happened - "


"Of all the desiccated, bitter, cruel, sunbeaten wildernesses which starve and thirst beyond the edges of Africa's luscious, jungled centre, there cannot be one more Christless than the one which begins at the northern foot of Mount Kenya and stretches to the foothills of Abyssinia, and from there to the dried-out glittering tip of Cape Gardafui where the hot karif winds blow in from where the long sharks race under the thin blue skin of the ocean. You can never think of those wildernesses without thinking of daggers and spears, rolling fierce eyes under mops of dusty black crinkly hair, of mad stubborn camels, rocks too hot to touch, and blood feuds whose origins cannot be remembered, only honoured in the stabbing. But of all the races of Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest; the Somalis."



"I never saw a Somali who showed any fear of death, which, impressive though it sounds, carries within it the chill of pitilessness and ferocity as well. If you have no fear of death you have none for anybody else's either, but that fearlessness has always been essential to the Somalis who have had to try and survive hunger, disease and thirst while prepared to fight and die against their enemies, their fellow Somalis for pleasure in the blood feud, or the Ethiopians who would like to rule them, or the white men who got in the way for a while."

"Everytime a Somali got whipped, an Italian soldier was killed"

"Wandering in The Shag (desert) were Somalis with some of the sharpest intelligences in the continent, nomads who had been forced into being parasites of the camel, for centuries, and could anyone ever find a way of using all that courage and intelligence?"

"There is no one alive as tough as the Somali nomad. No one.
An askari wounded in a fight in the Haud country walked 14 miles holding his guts in his hand, was sewn up and lived to soldier again. And the women are as spiritually strong as their men."

"....You get into that way of thinking in the Somali waste. You think that way because the Somalis bitterly resent the white man, and struggle continually, and admirably, by lies and intrigue, to fight off his influence which spells the end of their peculiar world. You cannot beat them. They have no inferiority complexes, no wide-eyed worship of the white man's ways, and no fear of him, of his guns or of his official anger. They are a race to be admired, if hard to love."


"The British colonials always sympathized with the Somalis, as they were free and could do whatever they want, some British were Somaliphiles while a Somali wouldn't hesitate in killing a British person. Somalis deeply hated the White man and all Ajnabis (Non-Somalis)".

"The Somalis and their cousins in Ethiopia were cunning, treacherous, and deceitful, none could be trusted lest he may entrap you and kill you"

"The Somalis killed many Europeans living in Somalia, they even forced them to pay taxes while they did nothing. Their hero The 'Sayyid Ina Abdilaahi Xassan' has killed hundreds of Europeans including Col. Richard Corfield who was a Somaliphile and recognized the Somali fight for freedom. Before Mohammed another man named Imam Ahmed (the Lefthanded) who is also a hero in Somali tradition fought the Portugese who were looking for Prestor John when they stumbled upon the Islamic conquest of the Ethiopian Christian kingdom. Their leader was Cristovao da Gama son of famed explorer Vasco da Gama. Ahmed killed him in battle and beheaded him and discarded his body in a nearby spring. Before da Gama was killed he was captured, tortured and forced to convert to Islam; once he refused he was killed".

"The Somalis in the neighborhood are treacherous, proud, and turbulent, and the Governor and his guard are really prisoners in on the forts which they built"-Italian Somalia


"If the British didn't come in Kenya the Somalis and their cousins the Borana warlike nomadic people from the north would've wiped the Kikuyu (Bantu natives of Kenya), who were in fear of these marauding nomads".

"If a Somali offers himself to a foreigner whether Black or White abroad and says he/she wants to marry him, he/she does not out of love but to gain citizenship and bring his/her family and throw that person in the garbage."

"All the Africans in Africa except for North Africans and other Horn of Africans of whom they are cousins consider the Somalis an undesirable bunch and a deceitful people. Most African nations except for the Arab nations and the North Africans have refused to accept them. Those who did, like Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda the economy is now in their hands."
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"If a Somali gets in trouble in Kenya or any of these African nations that took Somalis in, all a Somali has to do is bribe him with a few dollars and nothing happens".

"A Somali can be extremly cruel and murderous towards other Somalis if they have no other enemies around, but as soon as an enemy attacks them they all form a union and forget their problems because now they have a common enemy".

"The Ethiopians of whom are called "Highland People" and the Somalis of whom are called "Lowland People" have been enemies since the Somalis rebelled and separated from them. Both have a desire to rule each other, but history has showed European meddling to stop this".

"In Somali oral history the Hyena is a representation of cowardice and especially a representation of non-Somali peoples who are enemies towards them, while the fox who is a representation of cunning, intelligence, and deceit is important because its a representation of the Somali people".

"The Somalis boast that over 100 nations came to their land to conquer but yet never did this includes: Britons, Germans, Italians, French, Ethiopians, Greeks, Arabs, Persians, and so on. And they were all defeated especially the well armed White Man".

"A Somali was never taken to jail lest he may die in there, the Europeans would spare of him of it because of the many arguments of the Somali people, that prisons were only for slaves and foreigners".

"It always seemed that the Somali along with his camel seemed to view the White stranger in the homeland with equal contempt".

"White men and women couldn't have children in British Somaliland if they wanted to they had to bear their children elsewhere, this was a law of the Somali elders. If White children were to be born in any Somali lands the child would be killed or taken away and be raised as a Muslim."
 
Just came across this online, I remember half of them I remember my grandparents trekking me and laughed when I saw them online. They made me laugh and they're all still kinda true:

"A Somali always felt himself to be twice as good as any white man, or any other kind of man at all, and still does, even when he is wrong. Islam does wonders for the self respect of non-white people and Christianity is right to worry about the spread of Islam in Africa, and must honestly face the question of why it has happened - "


"Of all the desiccated, bitter, cruel, sunbeaten wildernesses which starve and thirst beyond the edges of Africa's luscious, jungled centre, there cannot be one more Christless than the one which begins at the northern foot of Mount Kenya and stretches to the foothills of Abyssinia, and from there to the dried-out glittering tip of Cape Gardafui where the hot karif winds blow in from where the long sharks race under the thin blue skin of the ocean. You can never think of those wildernesses without thinking of daggers and spears, rolling fierce eyes under mops of dusty black crinkly hair, of mad stubborn camels, rocks too hot to touch, and blood feuds whose origins cannot be remembered, only honoured in the stabbing. But of all the races of Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest; the Somalis."



"I never saw a Somali who showed any fear of death, which, impressive though it sounds, carries within it the chill of pitilessness and ferocity as well. If you have no fear of death you have none for anybody else's either, but that fearlessness has always been essential to the Somalis who have had to try and survive hunger, disease and thirst while prepared to fight and die against their enemies, their fellow Somalis for pleasure in the blood feud, or the Ethiopians who would like to rule them, or the white men who got in the way for a while."

"Everytime a Somali got whipped, an Italian soldier was killed"

"Wandering in The Shag (desert) were Somalis with some of the sharpest intelligences in the continent, nomads who had been forced into being parasites of the camel, for centuries, and could anyone ever find a way of using all that courage and intelligence?"

"There is no one alive as tough as the Somali nomad. No one.
An askari wounded in a fight in the Haud country walked 14 miles holding his guts in his hand, was sewn up and lived to soldier again. And the women are as spiritually strong as their men."

"....You get into that way of thinking in the Somali waste. You think that way because the Somalis bitterly resent the white man, and struggle continually, and admirably, by lies and intrigue, to fight off his influence which spells the end of their peculiar world. You cannot beat them. They have no inferiority complexes, no wide-eyed worship of the white man's ways, and no fear of him, of his guns or of his official anger. They are a race to be admired, if hard to love."


"The British colonials always sympathized with the Somalis, as they were free and could do whatever they want, some British were Somaliphiles while a Somali wouldn't hesitate in killing a British person. Somalis deeply hated the White man and all Ajnabis (Non-Somalis)".

"The Somalis and their cousins in Ethiopia were cunning, treacherous, and deceitful, none could be trusted lest he may entrap you and kill you"

"The Somalis killed many Europeans living in Somalia, they even forced them to pay taxes while they did nothing. Their hero The 'Sayyid Ina Abdilaahi Xassan' has killed hundreds of Europeans including Col. Richard Corfield who was a Somaliphile and recognized the Somali fight for freedom. Before Mohammed another man named Imam Ahmed (the Lefthanded) who is also a hero in Somali tradition fought the Portugese who were looking for Prestor John when they stumbled upon the Islamic conquest of the Ethiopian Christian kingdom. Their leader was Cristovao da Gama son of famed explorer Vasco da Gama. Ahmed killed him in battle and beheaded him and discarded his body in a nearby spring. Before da Gama was killed he was captured, tortured and forced to convert to Islam; once he refused he was killed".

"The Somalis in the neighborhood are treacherous, proud, and turbulent, and the Governor and his guard are really prisoners in on the forts which they built"-Italian Somalia


"If the British didn't come in Kenya the Somalis and their cousins the Borana warlike nomadic people from the north would've wiped the Kikuyu (Bantu natives of Kenya), who were in fear of these marauding nomads".

"If a Somali offers himself to a foreigner whether Black or White abroad and says he/she wants to marry him, he/she does not out of love but to gain citizenship and bring his/her family and throw that person in the garbage."

"All the Africans in Africa except for North Africans and other Horn of Africans of whom they are cousins consider the Somalis an undesirable bunch and a deceitful people. Most African nations except for the Arab nations and the North Africans have refused to accept them. Those who did, like Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda the economy is now in their hands."
"

"If a Somali gets in trouble in Kenya or any of these African nations that took Somalis in, all a Somali has to do is bribe him with a few dollars and nothing happens".

"A Somali can be extremly cruel and murderous towards other Somalis if they have no other enemies around, but as soon as an enemy attacks them they all form a union and forget their problems because now they have a common enemy".

"The Ethiopians of whom are called "Highland People" and the Somalis of whom are called "Lowland People" have been enemies since the Somalis rebelled and separated from them. Both have a desire to rule each other, but history has showed European meddling to stop this".

"In Somali oral history the Hyena is a representation of cowardice and especially a representation of non-Somali peoples who are enemies towards them, while the fox who is a representation of cunning, intelligence, and deceit is important because its a representation of the Somali people".

"The Somalis boast that over 100 nations came to their land to conquer but yet never did this includes: Britons, Germans, Italians, French, Ethiopians, Greeks, Arabs, Persians, and so on. And they were all defeated especially the well armed White Man".

"A Somali was never taken to jail lest he may die in there, the Europeans would spare of him of it because of the many arguments of the Somali people, that prisons were only for slaves and foreigners".

"It always seemed that the Somali along with his camel seemed to view the White stranger in the homeland with equal contempt".

"White men and women couldn't have children in British Somaliland if they wanted to they had to bear their children elsewhere, this was a law of the Somali elders. If White children were to be born in any Somali lands the child would be killed or taken away and be raised as a Muslim."
This is from .Warrior life and death if a somali by gerald hanley. right ?
 

SilentE1001

Reformation of Somaliland
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This is from .Warrior life and death if a somali by gerald hanley. right ?

I'm not sure but it's a mixture of Italian and British accounts. The last one about no brooch is to be born there is I've been told that by a number of elders. Could you please confirm for me....

There's another one where a Englishman is invited to dinner at the end the wife is washing up everyone's plate with water executive the Englishman who she washes with sand when he asks why she said because you're gaal and and unclean I don't know what you've touched or eaten before
 
I'm not sure but it's a mixture of Italian and British accounts. The last one about no brooch is to be born there is I've been told that by a number of elders. Could you please confirm for me....

There's another one where a Englishman is invited to dinner at the end the wife is washing up everyone's plate with water executive the Englishman who she washes with sand when he asks why she said because you're gaal and and unclean I don't know what you've touched or eaten before
Im 100% sure the first couple paragraphs till " they are a race to be admired if hard to love " is from gerald hanleys book " warriors: life and death of a somali" not sure about the rest tho .i heard of alot of stories of the colonial past from the elders last time i was in somalia .like that one sheik from ceelbur or warsheek who killed italian gaurds of the governors that were kidnapping a somali woman and when the colonist soldiers and governor asked the sheeik why he killed the gaurds .the sheeik told them that he would kill 100 more if he sees woman getting abused in his town .the governor let him go and made him a speciall advisor to him .
 

SilentE1001

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Im 100% sure the first couple paragraphs till " they are a race to be admired if hard to love " is from gerald hanleys book " warriors: life and death of a somali" not sure about the rest tho .i heard of alot of stories of the colonial past from the elders last time i was in somalia .like that one sheik from ceelbur or warsheek who killed italian gaurds of the governors that were kidnapping a somali woman and when the colonist soldiers and governor asked the sheeik why he killed the gaurds .the sheeik told them that he would kill 100 more if he sees woman getting abused in his town .the governor let him go and made him a speciall advisor to him .

I wish I lived during then times Somalis had Honour then and had a unique reputation which we've lost. I think the some of the nomads still have this but not the same.

It's up to us 20-something's to restore our rupatation as it had become somewher negative residually in the West.
 

Manafesto

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I was told by Somali elder back home long time ago that the British use to collect the brightest kids in Somaliland back in their colonization promising their parents for university scholarships in England.

These kids were put in a pro Christian school with the whole an emphasis in missionary, after they brain wash these young Geeljires , they would request them to go back home and spread the word of Jesus.

One white British pastor followed a young Geeljire to study why their missionary work in Somaliland was not breading any Christian conversions and is ending up in a failure.

As soon as the Geeljire and his white pastor arrived in this remote village outskirts of Burco, it was a makhrib prayers and all his family where praying, the young Geeljires joined on the prayers with grace , The pastor almost had a heart attack and he concluded a Somali can't be a Gaal period with out benefits.:siilaanyosmile:
 

Abkaal

Mudug menaces don't mince their words
"The King of Zeila ascended a hill with several horse and some foot to examine us ; he halted on the top with three hundred horse and three large banners, two white with red moons, and one red with a white moon, which always accompanied him, and by which he was recognized ;^ thence he examined us, while the rest of his army, with its bannerettes, descended the hill and surrounded us. Such was their trumpeting, drumming, cries, and skirmishing, that they appeared more numerous and stout-hearted [than they were]. D. Christovao, thinking they meant to attack us, visited all the defenses. We were ready for the fight; but they did no more than hold us surrounded all that day and that night, lighting many fires everywhere, and with the same noise and music. We feared them greatly that night, for every moment we thought they would attack us. We stood ready and armed, with powder-pots in our hands, matches lighted for the artillery and matchlocks, firing from time to time the bases as a guard, for we feared much their horsemen.":ahh:


Imam Ahmad retires to the shores of Lake Tzana to his family, when he knows that he has killed the Portuguese leader and more than half his men, captured all their arms, munitions, stores and camp, and dispersed the survivors. he dismisses his Turkish matchlockmen, and retires with his ordinary guard to his family on the banks of Lake Tzana. Perhaps no more instances are needed.
:mjcry:
If anything our forefathers were ahead of their time :salute:
 
Wallahi these are gold, you can literally feel the European's fear in their writing :cryinglaughsmiley:

"The Somalis in the neighborhood are treacherous, proud, and turbulent, and the Governor and his guard are really prisoners in on the forts which they built"
"It always seemed that the Somali along with his camel seemed to view the White stranger in the homeland with equal contempt". :cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley:
 
Wallahi these are gold, you can literally feel the European's fear in their writing :cryinglaughsmiley:

"The Somalis in the neighborhood are treacherous, proud, and turbulent, and the Governor and his guard are really prisoners in on the forts which they built"
"It always seemed that the Somali along with his camel seemed to view the White stranger in the homeland with equal contempt". :cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley::cryinglaughsmiley:
You can understand that I mean these people were used to admiration and subservience they had brought half the world to its knees.
 

SumMo

very lowkey
Who cares what white people think. We need to stop valuing their opinions so highly (even if this is a good thing)
I was about to say the same thing. Wallahi reading this made me cringe so hard. As if white peoples opinions matter..
:tacky:
 

chosen one

No sleep 2k18
Yawn. This means nothing in the midst of things right now. One may view himself superior than someone else but it doesnt mean a thing, the truth right now is this the gaalo are rich and somalis are poor.
 

DeadStar

I dare u to show yourself.
It’s called pride. And u guys have lost it. Degenerates, if nasab takes people to paradise Abu jahal would’ve been in there.
 

SilentE1001

Reformation of Somaliland
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What's a Somaliphile?

Three Brits were obsessed and admitte the Somalis as unlike other Africans didn't treat then like kinda rather see then saw them as their equal. Which is partly the reason why somaliland was a protectorate not a full fledged colony.

The Brits weren't allowed to build anything, give birth they were restricted to berbera first only upon agent consultation to move to the interior.
 

SilentE1001

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Yawn. This means nothing in the midst of things right now. One may view himself superior than someone else but it doesnt mean a thing, the truth right now is this the gaalo are rich and somalis are poor.

This is not to show we care about the white man's view: this is song how others viewed us before we had Honour back then and now we're weasels. Now all you are self interested Buffon who deceive and manipulate for your own benefit not the greater good. Lack of honour
 
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