Not to mention rather deluded. "Our city" kulaha. What's funny about that is that even in the only Banaadir magalaad where Cadcads had a significant enough population to genuinely rival Gibil-Madows (over 50% by a few percentage points) which was Marko; the ruling tribe and Suldaan were still Gibil-Madow (Bimaal). And they were plainly outnumbered in both Xamar and Baraawe during this period
as I have and others have shown on this site time and time again. Even in 1331 the ruler/Sultan Ibn Battuta mentions is "Barbara" (Somali) while only the local Qadi, an Egyptian, was ajanabi let alone Cadcad whilst Ibn Khaldun describes the city's mode of civilization as "nomadic" and we're told by Battuta of how it teems with camels slaughtered for hilib in its alleyways. By their OWN historical traditions the oldest and old dominant tribe of Xamar was always thought to be the Moorshe, a Gibil-Madow supposed off-shoot of the Ajuuraan. For the love of Allah, one of Xamar's gates was named after the Murusade. There's no gate named after any Cadcad subtribes...
Not to mention that
in the Italian census of Xamar the Italians give the most importance to the Abgaals in the city and dedicate, if I recall, like 6 pages to them and their political prominence in the town going back to the 1600s whereas every other tribe, including the Cadcad ones, was lucky to be given more than half a page. Even if we believe that they supposedly founded some of the Banaadir settlements and were just later joined by conquering, marauding interior Somali tribes these magaalo have not been "theirs" to control and dominate for clearly the vast majority of their history. Anyone who denies this is living la-la land and is not worth arguing with.
I do have sympathy for Cadcads like this, however. Some ethnic Somalis were, to put it very mildly, not very nice to them after the civil war took off and I can understand the uqdad and stigma that comes with being an ethnic minority but this kind of behavior is not it. Also, personally, I don't even see Cadcads as truly foreign. So far all of them have been shown to be anything from 30-45% Somali genetically and culturally, at least historically, they were planning Somalized people speaking our language and keeping many facets of our dhaqan whilst regularly intermarrying with Gibil-Madow groups. They are a type of unique Somali to me and I have nothing but love for them.