A uniquely Somali diaspora experience: I have a family member who is still a nomad

[DubatDiaries]

I was watching an older documentary on Inuits, like the thousands of other viewers watching these clips in the west in complete fascination with Arctic nomads. Reading the amused and genuinely curious comments, I realized ….I’m not like these people. I’m one generation away from living like this (minus all the ice and cold) and I need to stop acting brand new - as if I don’t actively have family living as nomadic pastoralists.
During my visit a while back, my 2nd(?) uncle, the nomad in question, came to see us at my ayeeyos place. He didn’t really say much and spent a lot of the day napping, so I missed my opportunity to have a proper conversation with him and ask him about his life. After spending the day, my eedo and I decided to walk him to the end of the village (which was a whopping 2 min walk). Carrying a small flashlight and a cloth sac, he walked into the darkness, no road or house in sight. Felt like something straight out of a nat geographic documentary - it was just another Tuesday for the rest of them. I was standing there confused - never felt more like an outsider on my trip back home than at that moment

I'm writing on my laptop and he's currently somewhere with his goats, chilling (hopefully)

 

[NidarNidar]

It's crazy, that sort of life is still common in Somali, my uncles used to tell me how my grandfather killed a lion in his younger days, I never really believed it until I went back home and saw it for myself, he hunted it after it killed his livestock.

 

[Thehoneyswmp]

All of my dads brothers still live as nomads, and even though they are all illterate and frequently experience drought, they are still a lot more happier than i could ever be.

 

[Yaraye]

Carrying a small flashlight and a cloth sac, he walked into the darkness, no road or house in sight. Felt like something straight out of a nat geographic documentary - it was just another Tuesday for the rest of them. I was standing there confused - never felt more like an outsider on my trip back home than at that moment

I could never I have Nyctophobia

 

[Keep it a boqol]

some of my adeers are still geeljires. I get along with them more then my younger reer magaal ones lol

 

[Thehoneyswmp]

I could never I have Nyctophobia

would you care to elaborate

 

[Yaraye]

would you care to elaborate

I'm afraid of the dark, I sleep with a night lamp

Total darkness gets me anxious, and fearful

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

half my family is still reer baadiyo the other half have been reer magaal since the colonial era

 

[Ozymandias]

How is it unique, 99% of somalis have family that are still nomads dafuq

 

[hinters]

half my family is still reer baadiyo the other half have been reer magaal since the colonial era

My entire family historically was reer baadiya but a lot of them have moved to cities

 

[DubatDiaries]

It's crazy, that sort of life is still common in Somali, my uncles used to tell me how my grandfather killed a lion in his younger days, I never really believed it until I went back home and saw it for myself, he hunted it after it killed his livestock.

We'd probably be seeing lions and elephants on our daily treks as nomads just a generation back. Now we sit in cubicles and stare at our screens all day for money..

 

[DubatDiaries]

I could never I have Nyctophobia

You won't make it - outside my relatives tuulo, it was pitch black at night. No street lamps in sight

 

[DubatDiaries]

half my family is still reer baadiyo the other half have been reer magaal since the colonial era

My fathers side in the galbeed are the recently settled ones. My moms side on the other hand lived in the cities for a couple of generations

How is it unique, 99% of somalis have family that are still nomads dafuq

*a uniquely somali experience - as in, "unique to somalis". Nobody is taking your geeljire card from you

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

My fathers side in the galbeed are the recently settled ones. My moms side on the other hand lived in the cities for a couple of generations

*a uniquely somali experience - as in, "unique to somalis". Nobody is taking your geeljire card from you

Same those reer magaal ones are the ones that mainly moved to the diaspora when the war happend

 

[Hodan from HR]

It's crazy, that sort of life is still common in Somali, my uncles used to tell me how my grandfather killed a lion in his younger days, I never really believed it until I went back home and saw it for myself, he hunted it after it killed his livestock.

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[NidarNidar]

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Such majestic creatures are killed for money, it saddens my heart, but people need to make a livelihood, I blame the government or lack of one.

 

[GaradShabeel]

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[DubatDiaries]

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[Kisame]

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