They did not make anything.
There are literally contemporary accounts of the Dervish manufacturing their own gunpowder and bullets. They even had a German mechanic working for them as an indentured servant.
The castles were built by Yemenis,
No they weren’t, be serious bro! Do you really think thousands of Yemeni workers left their British protectorate, then crossed the Red Sea under the British nose and began working on a massive fortress system in Africa for a Somali power hostile to the British? It was literally three of four Yemeni masons who were EMPLOYED by the Sayyid to help establish his permanent capital.
The funding and manpower came from the Somalis. The Sayyid also had a very detailed plan on how his capital should look like, with specific areas designated for the tombs of his parents, tombs for respected elders and sheikhs, an armoury, a garden, a caravanserai, a granary, etc
and they were built in a Yemeni style.
Then where are the Yemeni versions of Taleh? Their fortresses look nothing like ours.
This is the backwardness I am talking about. The world fights with planes and modern weapons,
Stop lying, most of the world wasn’t, for most of the Dervish Wars the Royal Air Force didn’t even exist yet. In fact it wasn’t founded until 1918, and was the first national air force for a reason.
What matters is that we were still fighting when the rest of the continent had already thrown in the towel.
and you were still using castles and horses
As were the French, the Germans and the British. Spielberg even made a great movie about it called ‘War Horse’.
That's why they sent six planes and destroyed everything easily
That is an example of shock and awe much the same way it only took two nukes for Japan to surrender because it was a completely new weapon like the airplane was in the 1920s for an organised military society in Africa, and they didn’t destroy everything easily at all because there are tons of fortresses scattered across the Somali landscape from that period.
It was not the greatest resistance. It was more like a civil war between tribes loyal to Britain and others to Italy and Abyssinia
Typical qabiil take, let me guess; the Mullah ragdolled your clan and now you want to diminish what is recognised by academics as one of the greatest colonial resistance movements in African history?
My clan got ragdolled too, well boohoo. He ragdolled his own clan too.
Just go and read about Mahdist War, Rif War Italian,Senussi war
These are the ones who really fought colonialism, not some Somalis fighting over the qabiil
in the Rif War. It was the numbers of Europeans that the Moroccans faced was 465,000 soldiers
+200 aircraft
Mahdists had a much larger population than Somalia, and still got smoked in just three years without a major new weapon like the airplane. The Rif and Senussi wars enjoyed Ottoman, German and Soviet support in terms of military hardware and manpower. The Dervish only received diplomatic recognition from them, and still held the imperialists at bay for decades.
While the Dervishes were defeated against 12 aircraft and less than 2,000
That was only one campaign and again you don’t seem to understand the battlefield eraser known as ‘shock and awe’. Twelve airplanes against a military society equipped with only maxim guns and rifles might as well be 200 airplanes because it had the same psychological impact.
Nobody has calculated the total manpower the British dispatched over the span of 20 years, or those of Abyssinia and Italy but it would be in the tens of thousands, including casualties.
The British commanders also commented that the Dervish made a strategic mistake when they abandoned their forts because the bombs from airplanes weren’t strong enough to destroy their fortifications.
If the Sayyid hadn’t died from natural causes, the Dervish wars would have re-ignited and continued well into the 1930s and perhaps WWII. The fact that we don’t speak a European language, practice Christianity or have been culturally changed by the Imperialists is because of the various resistance movements across the Somali peninsula and which involved individuals from EVERY clan.
In fact had the British not ceded away our lands, it would have been as if they had never been there in the first place.
I have no foreign origins, I am 100% Somali
I’m pretty sure you commented once that you have Yemeni heritage.
Do you know the reason for this? The Somalis were not an extremist people in Islam like the people in North Africa and the Middle East. The Somalis became very religious in the nineties and after But before this, they did not know what jihad was .
Mannnnnn the only example of an Islamic empire conquering a Christian empire through jihad in Africa before the 19th century originated from Somalia. What the hell are you talking about?
