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The Tana river is in Kenya, not Somalia.
As for Madowweyne Bantus, they all descend from Malawian and Tanzanian slaves brought by Benadiri and Arab merchants. None of them naturally migrated to Somalia. I don't buy this revisionist crap written centuries after the fact often by people with Bantu ancestry with an agenda or who use said individuals for citations.
Ethnic Cushitic Somalis are the sole natives to Somalia, nobody else is. The rest are recent migrants one way or another.
Moreover, all of them are mixed with the enslaved Bantus. So my initial argument holds.
Whatever your argument will be next, at the end of the day they are still Bantus from Eastern Nigeria/Southern Cameroon (Western Africa). All serious anthropologists agree on this. These people are in no way shape or form native to Somalia.
Apollo,
We agree about ancient Egyptian history and the origin of the Cushites. We don't agree about the Bantu expansion.
The Book of the Zanj (https://sites.google.com/site/historyofeastafrica/the-book-of-the-zanj) states that the Oromo drove the Sabaki speakers south and up the rivers from Shungwaya, on the Jubba. The southern groups are the present Sabaki speakers in Kenya and those that went up the rivers are the Gabawiin, Shabelli, Makane, Shidle and the Aytiire clans of Afgoi. Those who claimed to be slaves of the Ajuran were natives. The Ajuran enslaved locals (more like clients), but did not import slaves. My understanding is that the Bantu expansion stopped at the Tana.
The Tana river is in Kenya, not Somalia.
As for Madowweyne Bantus, they all descend from Malawian and Tanzanian slaves brought by Benadiri and Arab merchants. None of them naturally migrated to Somalia. I don't buy this revisionist crap written centuries after the fact often by people with Bantu ancestry with an agenda or who use said individuals for citations.
Ethnic Cushitic Somalis are the sole natives to Somalia, nobody else is. The rest are recent migrants one way or another.
Moreover, all of them are mixed with the enslaved Bantus. So my initial argument holds.
Whatever your argument will be next, at the end of the day they are still Bantus from Eastern Nigeria/Southern Cameroon (Western Africa). All serious anthropologists agree on this. These people are in no way shape or form native to Somalia.