I confess to not being able to make some of the more subtle distinctions, but I understood there were no Jareer. There were considerable social pressures at that time NOT to discuss race or qabiil issues.
Jilib was the Italian administrative center for the Lower Jubba, which at that time went half way to Lugh. Gedo was not carved off until later. The majority of the residents in Jilib were government employees. The Bantu lived in small villages and clusters of the circular form of carish up and down the river. The mayor of Gosha and a few households in some way related to him, were the only Somali Bantu I was aware of who lived in Jilib proper. Virtually all the rest lived on their farms.





