1939 - Eid celebration in Muqdisho.

[Striker]

80 years ago.

Noice video

 

[The alchemist]

We have changed a lot. We should at least have kept the erratic dances.

 

[Balaayo]

Those dancing are abgaal

 

[abdiwarrior]

They look like savages thx to arabization

 

[4head]

My great people.

 

[zidane]

Mad how we only have records of our history through gaalo historians and archives

 

[Rocca Littorio]

I can't help but notice the diverse mix of people.

This was what Somalia was about, a haven for people to live in safety together.

A shame that it is the opposite today.

 

[Striker]

I can't help but notice the diverse mix of people.

This was what Somalia was about, a haven for people to live in safety together.

A shame that it is the opposite today.

I don't know if there was a census but I was told lots of foreigners lived and worked in the capital city before the civil war.

But I think they mostly lived in their own segregated neighborhoods?

 

[Ameen]

What the f*ck are they saying though.

 

[Rocca Littorio]

I don't know if there was a census but I was told lots of foreigners lived and worked in the capital city before the civil war.

But I think they mostly lived in their own segregated neighborhoods?

I heard in 1940, Italians were the biggest group in Xamar and that it was a mainly Christian city.

 

[zidane]

I can't help but notice the diverse mix of people.

This was what Somalia was about, a haven for people to live in safety together.

A shame that it is the opposite today.

Where did all the indians go

I saw an old clip of NFD back in the colonial times and it was full of indians protesting side by side with somalis

They may be swahilis from lamu now that I think about it

 

[World]

I can't help but notice the diverse mix of people.

This was what Somalia was about, a haven for people to live in safety together.

A shame that it is the opposite today.

Hawiye only formed 17 % of Mogadishu’s population in 1931.

 

[Fiidmeer]

Hawiye only formed 17 % of Mogadishu’s population in 1931. View attachment 62377

Most of the population was Italian.

 

[Rocca Littorio]

Where did all the indians go

I saw an old clip of NFD back in the colonial times and it was full of indians protesting side by side with somalis

They may be swahilis from lamu now that I think about it

There was a huge Indian and Persian population in Somalia and they had representatives in parliament.

Most of them left after the Ogaden war when Barre turned to shit.

I remember reading an article about the Somali-Indian community that live in the UK now:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/217371

 

[kobe]

I can't help but notice the diverse mix of people.

This was what Somalia was about, a haven for people to live in safety together.

A shame that it is the opposite today.

Hawiye only formed 17 % of Mogadishu’s population in 1931. View attachment 62377

Most of the population was Italian.

Here is one of 1950:

 

[Fiidmeer]

Here is one of 1950:

I think that was when Muqdisho was was a real city and the Italians were moving out.

 

[Rocca Littorio]

Here is one of 1950:

So Arabs and reer xamar were not far off population-wise from Somalis.



Interesting.

 

[Rocca Littorio]

I think that was when Muqdisho was was a real city and the Italians were moving out.

Italians bounced right after 1960, those that remained went to the countryside or were rich enough to not give a f*ck about independence.

 

[zidane]

There was a huge Indian and Persian population in Somalia and they had representatives in parliament.

Most of them left after the Ogaden war when Barre turned to shit.

I remember reading an article about the Somali-Indian community that live in the UK now:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/217371

What was the highest populations of Indians in Somalia?

Hawiye only formed 17 % of Mogadishu’s population in 1931. View attachment 62377

This census says 30k in 1931, did it increase later?

 

[Rocca Littorio]

What was the highest populations of Indians in Somalia?

Don't actually know. There were more of them in Somaliland and other coastal Somali cities.