what's the difference? Plus a vast majority of somalis didn't fully cover up. I've seen alot of vintage photos were the women are bare chested.
To be honest, I have a pretty gigantic collection of Somali and Horner historical images. I've only seen like 2-3 women barechested. It was not a regular occurrence and what I've read in historical accounts in the 1800s is that it would likely be frowned upon in many regions.
I'm 99.4% somali and I'm always confused with being Nigerian or Congolese and I'm not the only one.
It's not real. I get 0.1% of the same in the new 23andme update. I've thoroughly examined my genome using better calculators like nMonte G25. There is not one trace of anything non-Horner in me and in fact most of the folks who show 0.something to 1-2% "Congolese" don't. This is like when we used to show "Ethiopian" before the update. Their Congolese component has Somali-like ancestry in it like what's in the Tutsi so it latches onto some Somalis. There is no "Bantu" in lik 99% of Somalis. There have been enough studies on this and I've fiddled with enough commercially sampled genomes, believe me. The biggest hint should be that Woqooyis also sometimes show these trace amount "Congolese" stuff. The "outside" admixture most Somalis show if you really fiddle with the raw data is usually something Oromo or Xabash-like. That seems fairly ubiquitous.
@Shimbiris
Have you got any records on how Somalis wore leather prior to the importation of White Cotton?
Pretty sure those white tobes are very old, walaal. That stuff seems pretty old based on how alike it is to the way Ancient Egyptians and Nubians dressed and the fact that by the 1700s-1800s it was ubiquitous from Chad to Sudan to the Horn to Northern Kenya. It's even basically dress-code in Umrah so Arabs probably wore it too in the distant past. There's also stuff in the Periplus from 2,000 years ago describing that cloth is exported from Egypt to the Somali coast for "the Berbers" (our ancestors).
