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Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:23 pm
by Warsame101
This extract shows that around 2,000 Somali Bantus were enlisted in the Daraawiish army. In the aftermath of the Gumburo battle, two Yao Daraawiish were captured. Yao are Somali Bantus desended from the waYao ethnic in Tanzania.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:27 pm
by Shirib
Yes true also, Nasiib Bunto established a community in Gosha and fought the Italians colonialists there.
Warsame do u have anymore info on the Gosha revolts, this is all I could find
In 1890 the so called Gosha Revolt began and was led by Nassib Bunto. The revolt started in the lower Shabelle as a struggle against slavery. Bunto recruited the majority of his men from freed slaves who deserted their Italian landlords. He established his center in the Gosha region (now part of lower shabelle) and he began a resistance. His region became a safe haven for escaped slaves where they established farming, cattle herding, training in handicrafts, and manufacturing tools and weapons. These newly freed men resisted the Italian landlords and colonizers. The Gosha Revolt kept the Italians from taking the area and pushing inwards for decades, until its defeat in 1907.
http://digil-mirifle.com/index.php?PHPS ... 243&page=8
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:38 pm
by Warsame101
Nasiib Bantu was a powerful Sultan of the Gosha but unfortunately, I do not know much about their revolt. What I do know is that one of the main enemies were the Somalis.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:40 pm
by Shirib
Warsame101 wrote:Nasiib Bantu was a powerful Sultan of the Gosha but unfortunately, I do not know much about their revolt. What I do know is that one of the main enemies were the Somalis.
Yea he had major Somali enemies who wanted to keep bantu's down and under enslavement
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:43 pm
by Cawar
Warsame,
Unfortunately for somalis..history and contribution is synonymous with fighting and more specificly with geel grabbing etc etc,
But contributing to somali history in a positive way..has many aspects..including taking care of the beero and basically feeding other somalis for so long.
Oh yeah mentioning those fighters and Mujahids is a big thing for us somalis too and something that many were not aware... So good that you pointed that out...and thanks
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:44 pm
by Somaliman50
Are they the same ones who dwell on the Webi Shabelle banks? If so,
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:28 pm
by Voltage
Somali Bantus we need to give them affirmative action for having been unfairly treated for so long.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:38 pm
by CoolPoisons
the runaway slaves were abdihutu's people
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:43 pm
by precious_dyme
Intresting.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:14 pm
by paidmonk
Most of their contributions in Somalia are related to religion. They created many if not all of the more severe animist elements of Suufism, especially in places in the Jubba, Shabelle, and Hiiraan regions where Bantus form a percentage near or above 20% of the population. I can tell you some of the more bizarre rituals they helped introduce, prepare for shock and awe. The most venerated Suufi sheikh in my hometown came directly from Uganda from tales I heard.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:32 pm
by Voltage
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 3:38 pm
by paidmonk
I didn't say they didn't contribute to society in other ways, I just listed the most obvious influence I've seen thus far.
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:53 pm
by Cisse Westlake
CoolPoisons wrote:the runaway slaves were abdihutu's people
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:58 pm
by sweeti
Interesting...i didn't know that walaahi..thnx for sharing
Re: Who said Somali Bantus didn't contribute to Somali History
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 5:01 pm
by Niya
Shirib wrote:In 1890 the so called Gosha Revolt began and was led by Nassib Bunto. The revolt started in the lower Shabelle as a struggle against slavery. Bunto recruited the majority of his men from freed slaves who deserted their Italian landlords. He established his center in the Gosha region (now part of lower shabelle) and he began a resistance. His region became a safe haven for escaped slaves where they established farming, cattle herding, training in handicrafts, and manufacturing tools and weapons. These newly freed men resisted the Italian landlords and colonizers. The Gosha Revolt kept the Italians from taking the area and pushing inwards for decades, until its defeat in 1907.
http://digil-mirifle.com/index.php?PHPS ... 243&page=8
The first time I read about Nasib Bundo, it was in the book 'From Mogadishu to Dixon' edited by Abdi Kusow et. al. I could not help bursting out laughing........out of ignorance about Somali history maybe, but the paragraph reads like something out of Sojourner Truth's diary. I even posted a question here inquiring about Nasib bundo
I have doubts and reservation about Somali's written history one comes across as biased and the other as revisionist.