I think there are like 6 samaale clans, according to my family both sides say we were a shoot off of other people westwards and my grandmother told me what came before samaale but I can't remember.
I believe though that there were many more clans but they probably merged with bigger samaale clans.
B4 Islam we dress exactly the same way guntino, dress, bangles, the loincloth for men etc
You can see that with the purer Rendille who are a tribe who never accepted Islam and were kicked out.
Some of you people actually need to start reading some books rather than regurgitating what you heard from someone .the rendille were not kicked out because they refused Islam .
according to their oral history ,the rendiile refused to accept the religion of the borana oromos , forcing them to flee from modern day Ethiopia to modern day north Kenya .the gabbra,a Muslim group fled from the boranas,too.the borana,gabbra and rendille all have a similar traditions in their oral histories .rendille are not a samale clan and never were .
the rendille migration to Northern Kenya occurred around 500-600 years .the samale group was already Muslim for a long time before this and residing in a different territory ,so the idea that rendille are some kind of lost proto Pagan Somali clan is a load of nonsense . Rendille are just another ancient Cushitic clan which separated from samales way before the spread of Islam into the region .