Postby Steeler [Crawler2] » Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:21 am
They were slaves, mostly captured from raids in the areas now known as Uganda and Kenya. Many of the slaves were sold to the Arabs, but some were kept in modern Somalia and worked there. The Somalis did not tend to breed with them very much, and so they have maintained their racial lines quite a bit, and in some cases have maintained some linguistic traits from their points of origin as well. Many, although not most, are animist.