OK. Now, that's a link.You do know what they are! But, here's the whole quote below:
Zanzibar, and the rulers of Mog before them were only interested in the port. They wanted to keep the interior out, originally with a wall facing only the miyi; and later with laws that locals could not be in the city at night. Think Shanshi and Cadcads. That is up until 1624, when the Hiraab beat both the Yemeni Muzzaffars and the Ajuraan. But that didn't end Omani/Yemeni/Zanzibari control of the port when their ships were in.
Nobody is saying that Zanzibar, or Mog before the Italians, ruled the interior tribes. But neither did the interior tribes control the exterior trade. Yusuf of the Geledi died at Golwayn trying to take a port from the Biimaal. Clients of Ajuraan period city states had ships, but there is no indication the Ajuraan did. The only Somali shipbuilding I am aware of was at Hafun, and that was much later.
You and those of your ilk always want to confuse the port and trade with the countryside. For the vast majority of Mogadishu's history, control of the two was separate. The Ajuraan ruled from Qalafo and Mareeg, etc., but not Mog. The Geledi ruled from Afgoye. It was the Yemeni Muzzaffars with the palace in Mog and, "nominal" or not, Zanzibar did sell Somalia to the Italians. He who controls the coast controls access.
Ajuran domain extended from Hobyo in the north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south.
I've already shown you that Zanzibar never ruled Mogadishu and was only nominal while it was in the hands of local Somali rulers like Geledi Sultanate and Hiraab Imamate. You have been dismissed oldman so sip tea somewhere else.
