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Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:48 pm**

With their hair meticulously styled, the nomads of East Africa’s Somalia display a custom in which young men (l,) wear their hair in enormous *afros smoothed out with homemade butter. When the men become older and marry (r,), they trim the afros somewhat, cease applying butter to it and wear their hair completely natural.

Ebony Magazine, February 1973

Posted: **Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:58 pm**

Nice thread

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 3:37 am**

Recognize anyone?

BlueNwhite, thanks alot for posting this wonderful pictures; you can also see Tubeec, Xasan Diiriye, Haboon Abdullahi, Axmadeey Cabdi Gaashan, Mecaad Megane etc

My guess is that that is the cast of shabeel naagood (one of the earliest plays)

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:00 pm**

Ii bashaal adeerkiis.

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:06 pm**

Durdur.

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:08 pm**

Ii bashaal adeerkiis.

Aaaaw, dharka asaa dhaqooyo

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:18 pm**

She looks like she's texting.

Posted: **Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:29 pm**

AFRICAN GLADIATORS: A WONDERFUL SOMALI WAR DANCE
One of the most striking dances in the Somali repertoire, called the "Bororoma-Boromsi" dance. Surrounded by an ever-restless chanting chorus of spearmen, the two combatants — one attacking fiercely with cutlass, the other defending desperately with his small Somali shield — seem to be in grim and deadly earnest, and none would believe them to be at play.

Posted: **Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:14 pm**

^^ Do you think they still do this? and might the name of the game be?

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:57 am**

Greenday, Gadabursi ayaa ugu yeera Wilwile and I haven't seen Wilwile performance yet so I will let someone else answer your question.

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Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2012 3:16 am**

Clarinet player, Mohamed Osman Isbatoore, November 1981.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:52 am**

BnW

This picture was taken in the NFD Mandera district I think.

Posted: **Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:17 pm**

With their hair meticulously styled, the nomads of East Africa’s Somalia display a custom in which young men (l,) wear their hair in enormous *afros smoothed out with homemade butter. When the men become older and marry (r,), they trim the afros somewhat, cease applying butter to it and wear their hair completely natural.

Ebony Magazine, February 1973

I didn't know this

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