Decline of mogadishu 17th-18th century

[Neptune]

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Mental illness.

 

[Angelina]

Completely false. The town's own native oral and written traditions, historically agreed upon by both Cadcad (Gibil-Cad) and Somali (Gibil-Madow) tribes, plainly maintain the earliest inhabitants were Somalis (Gibil-Madows). In fact, this is the origin myth of every Banaadir town; that some native Somali tribe was the core original group. In Barawe it was the Tunni, in Xamar a Gibil-Madow subtribe that claims Ajuuraan origins and in Marko it seems to be the Hawiye.

When Battuta was there during the 14th century (1331) he was the first actual eye-witness visitor we know of writing about the place and he describes the ruler of Muqdisho as a "Barbara", a people who herd camels and fat-tailed sheep, are black-skinned, Shafici Muslims and live from Saylac down to Muqdisho. Plainly Somalis and this picture persists into Portugues accounts where "white" skinned inhabitants were a minority. Even Ibn Khaldun before Battuta describes the civilization of Muqdisho as "nomadic" in character like how Battuta describes the sheer number of camels being slaughtered when he visited.

Furthermore, as @Idilinaa can present the archaeology also points to Afgooye being older than Muqdisho which corroborates to some extent the origin myths the tribes of these towns maintain that it was natives who lived along the coast who received outsiders and formed these cosmopolitan ports.

Also, from what I've heard from some Cadcads I trust, their mtDNA seems overwhelmingly Somali which means it was mostly foreign men who were coming to the Banaadir to settle and taking Somali wives. You don't found towns and communities as just men. If this mtDNA stuff is true it's also genetically plain that they were guests of Somali tribes who intermarried with them and not real settlers who brought their wives and children.

Cease being a self-hater and stop spreading misinformation. It's 2025. Can't go around believing such bullshit no more.

Even without DNA, oral history points to them historically having Somali mothers. Most cadcad overwhelmingly have an ethnic Somali grandmother or great grandmother. When they do have Somali blood it’s overwhelmingly through a Somali female. It clearly the case of whole tribes migrating and founding it a place. It was men coming to an older established trading city.