slavery in Somalia: new details i learned

[aden1812]

never seen my dad after i was born, i'm learning everything about him from my older half brother, and it sucks not having any knowledge of my extended family from my dads side. i just found of my father, his father, and his father-all had kids later in life. and my great grandfather owned slaves, early 1900s. apparently when finally gave them their freedom, he "adopted" them and took on the responsibility of making them his own children...i think they were Oromo. but because no one in the surrounding community would marry them, the freed slaves than married into the bantu community. and there is a whole community of bantu, with oromo slave heritage around luuk area who are in a way related to me.

i was born in mogadishu, i am hawiye(degodia) and my mom is reer barawa, the lands my father and his father inhabitied was luuk and around the "mandera triangle". does anyone else have any real lamogoatle history on slavery in badiyo? i really am intrested to hear stories about slavery in somalia.

 

[Burqad]

Slavery never lasted more than one generation because under shafii law the slave-owner is automatically like the “father” of the slave child and thus since it’s illegal to own your own child they would be freed.

also unlike Swahili’s Somalis preferred to have clients instead of slaves, it’s the early Roman model of slavery instead of the Greek.