Ramadan Festival in Muqdisho (1939) [Colorized]

[convincation]

Somalis were very dark back then we used to wear those white clothes

its just the western weather is making us light skin

Not even about colour it’s more about features. Many people there were clearly bantu

 

[Naacasfrompunt]

Not even about colour it’s more about features. Many people there were clearly bantu

Those guys aren’t Bantu

theres of odayal with red henna in their beard

their probably hawiye cause they are dark

 

[Sedderr1234]

Nice video but I didn’t like how those Indians were sitting up at top staring down at Somalis and Somalis dancing for them, looked weird

 

[abayoqurux]

I know that some shanshis are indian/arab mix but I never heard of a full fledged Indian qabil living on Somali soil. Your dad could be confusing reer Xamars as Indians

this video answers ur doubts, this guy is one of them after the war they fled

 

[Burqad]

Somalia was highly diverse before the civil war, like 10 percent of Somalia was non-Somali mostly concentrated in the south.

 

[Garaad diinle]

Somalia was highly diverse before the civil war, like 10 percent of Somalia was non-Somali mostly concentrated in the south.

Interesting. Source?

 

[Unicron]

An old Sikh man from London once told me he lived in Mogadishu during the 1970s and said it was the best African country he had lived in because of how close the city was to the beach and because there was a wedding happening every day so the Indians and Pakistanis that ran Gold shops in the city always had customers.

This was also around the time Idi Amin confiscated all of their wealth in Uganda.

 

[Burqad]

An old Sikh man from London once told me he lived in Mogadishu during the 1970s and said it was the best African country he had lived in because of how close the city was to the beach and because there was a wedding happening every day so the Indians and Pakistanis that ran Gold shops in the city always had customers.

This was also around the time Idi Amin confiscated all of their wealth in Uganda.

they dominated the whole economy in the rest of Eastern Africa but were mostly small scale jewelry sellers in ours, and they were assimilated mostly.

like 90 percent of all Ugandan exports went through a tin-jileec

 

[reer_ugaas_hussein]

Xamar was once a beautiful and diverse city, sad to see what happened to it after the 90's