Most of the inhabitants along the Banaadir coast end up being primarily of Indian descent with a significant Somali background. The notion of them being Yemeni, and some even claiming to be Qurashi, is mostly fiction. Our ancestors were captivated by them because of their fairer skin compared to ours, but most of them arrived here as merchants.
Mogadishu, an ancient city, was historically governed by Somalis during ever period.
In antiquity, the ancient city of Sarapion is believed to have been the predecessor state of Mogadishu. It is mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, a Greek travel document dating from the first century AD, as one of a series of commercial ports on the Somali peninsula. According to the Periplus, maritime trade already connected peoples in the Mogadishu area with other similar communities along the Somali peninsula.
Logically, the Yemeni Cadcads should be most dominant the closer you get to Yemen β Saylac, Berbera, Mayd, Bosaso, etc. β but none are to be found. Almost like they aren't Yemeni.
But the Cadcad people are only found in the greater Banaadir area. There are plenty of tribal enclaves of differing Somali clans living all over. Where are those Cadcad communities?
Yaqut al-Hamawi, a Muslim medieval geographer in the year 1220, describes Mogadishu as the most prominent town on the coast. Yaqut also mentioned Mogadishu as being a town inhabited by Berbers, described as "dark-skinned" and considered ancestors of modern Somalis. By the thirteenth century, Ibn Sa'id described Mogadishu, Merca, and Barawa located in the Banaadir coast as having become Islamic and commercial centers in the Indian Ocean. He said the local people in the Banaadir coast and the interior were predominantly inhabited by Somalis, with a minority of Arab, Persian, and Indian merchants living in the coastal towns.
There is an increase not only in Cadcads but also Somali Bantus trying to erase Somali history and proclaim ethnic Somalis as an outside force that came in. The fact that Somali Bantus are screaming this while this is a group that came in the last 150 years, where the Italians themselves described Somalis going into the Congo and creating plantation economies along the banks of the Shebelle and Jubba shows just how blatantly unhistorical this is.