Did your Parents avoid talking about Qabil?

[Somalib]

My parents always avoided talking about Qabil like it was the plague. I didn't even know what their Qabils were (or mine was) until I was 20

I think it was due to them being educated people who experienced the best of whatever the old regime had to offer. This only the case for my parents though, my reer abtis and reer adeers back home won't outright say it, but they live, eat, and breathe Qabil.

My family talked about it whenever the conversation was about Somalia or something. When I first heard it I thought we were backwards as hell

 

[Riya.]

My parents are from two different qabils. They never brought it up growing up. I mean they discuss politics together but other than that no.

 

[Malik_N_Tea]

I asked my parents my qabil after watching a documentary on Mohamed Said Barre and well my reaction was something

 

[Dharbash]

I thought I was marehan for a while as a kid cause my mum is, didn’t know you abtirsi through your dad, I was so innocent

 

[Deejay]

I thought I was marehan for a while as a kid cause my mum is, didn’t know you abtirsi through your dad, I was so innocent

Miskeen, you ate all that quule for nothing.


I didn't really learn about qabiil until my late teens, my parents talked about politics but not so much about qabiil.