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Harti live in kismayo. Notice how he didn't go into detail when it comes to kismayo. Too many clans live in kismayo's outskirts. If he inlcuded harti they would just be a very small dot in the small kismayo star.Voltage, you made this map and forgot to add Harti?
Or was I fed misleading information and Harti don't exist in Jubbaland?
AUN to adeer. Way ahead of his time.No wonder these guys had problems capturing kismayo. Ileen they are not even the majority in raas kambooni area. MX need to expand moe on that jilib route. The reer yusuf there are small. Its where dr ali nur aun was born.
That makes sense.Harti live in kismayo. Notice how he didn't go into detail when it comes to kismayo. Too many clans live in kismayo's outskirts. If he inlcuded harti they would just be a very small dot in the small kismayo star.Voltage, you made this map and forgot to add Harti?
Or was I fed misleading information and Harti don't exist in Jubbaland?
[/size] True, Harti, like the Darod of Mogadishu, are urban shareholders with legitimate stakes, but the map actually reflects deegaan---and I can tell you;Harti live in kismayo. Notice how he didn't go into detail when it comes to kismayo. Too many clans live in kismayo's outskirts. If he inlcuded harti they would just be a very small dot in the small kismayo star.Voltage, you made this map and forgot to add Harti?
Or was I fed misleading information and Harti don't exist in Jubbaland?
Harti, like Mudulood, is a political name on the former Benadir Coast and both signify a union that was originally never really supposed to be a lineage but a response to major political events which throw political organization on top of non politically organized peoples.
Mudulood was formed by the physical capture of Benadir by the Zanzabari Sultanate in late 1700's and early 1800s.
Before, Mogadishu, Barawa, Kilwa, Sofala, etc functioned as INDEPENDENT CITY STATES but which were under the trading "commonwealth" overseen by Oman.
Famously, we know the Omani Sultanate moved to Zanzabar physically and the empire was broken in two; the older line got Zanzabar and younger line got Oman.
The fierce competition between the two resulted in the need to limit the other through direct control of the trade lines. The actual Zanzibar territory around the Zanzabari Island upt to Mombasa physically went and captured the commonwealth and instituted direct rule.
This is the Sultan Barqash Mogadishu we know and would later sell the rights of Benadir to the Italians.
The physical capture of Mogadishu rewarded those who fought against the defeated authority and punished those who fought to keep it in place. The Tunni decline started and the enemies of the Tunni and previous leadership rose. The group in the later started to organjze under Mudulood, initially all who were fighting the Tunni/Geledi system of the pre-Mogadishu capture.
Similarly, originally Kismaayo was... not in existence until the British made a makeshift harbor at the foot of where the Jubba connects with the Ocean. With miles and miles, there were no people there except freed Slaves under British protection.
The Italians immediately followed with a base at the bent of the Jubba where it bends from straight line down at today's Jamaame to go south to Kismaayo.
They called it Margherita (locally Mareeray).
The Italians at that time only formally had Benadir and Obbio, during their seizure of "Majeerteenya" or Bari, some of the opposing extant s of the Majerten boqor were sent as "exiles" to Mareeray, who ended up jumping to British territory which housed the southern Darod (Marehan and Awlyahan in Camel country furtheat uo, Talomoge in Cattle Country with MZubeer in between).
As Jubbaland administration grew after formal union of Jubaland territory in NFD of British East Africa Protectorate, the original Mj exiles led by Sultan Nahar were joined by Dhulahavante/Warsangeli migrants from northern British Somaliland joining other Darood at British Jubbaland.
The MJ name was discarded for Harti as is expected. But this group, functioning, as administrative middle men were never counted anything bigger than can fit one large swimming pool.
But this isn't the Harti whose name you see on Maps then to the end of the "Hariifa" system banned by Italian Somaliland in the 50's.
After the Italians outlawed slavery in Luuq and then forcefully disbanded the master/client system after they took over Jubbaland, the Aweer/Ribi Wa-Boni serfs were relocated systematically through Italian-British cooperation to two camps near their control.
The Ribi became the village of Caanoole near "Margherita/Mareeray"and the Aweer became the village of Burgaabo immediately south of "Kismaayo." Various emancipated Wardeey and coastal bondsman under the name "reer Maanyo" who were under the yolk of the previous Tunni slavers joined the Aweer and Ribi.
With the ensuing politicization of POPULATION and organized administration (concepts of "majority" and "minority"), the Harti name through direct political mobilization become a vehicle for expressing power.
This is how for example, even the name of the united "Harti" group recently partaking in the new Islamic regime wars in Jubbaland, was called "Mucaskar Caanoole."
As "clans." it is even possible that besides "Harti", other groups IN THE LOWER JUBBA, where majority of their numbers results from emancipation in that period, also includes "Muqaabul," "Cawrmale", "Dir", "Hiraab", and "Sheeqaal."
Those are the clans, particularly Harti, Muqaabul, and Awrmale, where a close analysis and deduction from the historic record would yield MAJORITY member whose identities were reorganized from that period.
Other groups where it is certainly less than majority, but in varying numbers inordinately substantial to sizable, are "Mohamed Zuber", "Abdalle", Somali Bantu, "Bajuni", and "Baraawe."
With the Somali Bantu, you will note the distinction between 100% emancipated (as even the original Somali Bantu were slaves) and less than half are from reorganization (the people that joined them are less than the original group).
Sometimes inclusion was force and further victimisation of the Aweer/Ribi/Warseey, etc meant to be protected. This is why they gradually were forced to go further south and south----those of them that absolutely resisted loss of identity.
It got to the point where their only save territory became the triangle area between the Somali and Kenyan coast today known as "Ras Kamboni and on the Kenyan side known as the " WaBoni Reserve"... quite literally declared as a RESERVE for PEOPLE, in this case the Aweer and Ribi, to protect them from cultural death.
From the Shabelle border with Ethiopia to Ras Kamboni the identities there are more shaky than rickety steps which explains everything about why one dominant group hasn't been able to replace the Siad Barre gov.
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