CULTURE Somali holidays

[Soul Kaizer]

Are there any specific Somali holidays that aren’t the usual islamic holidays?

 

[Soul Kaizer]

 

[Somali_patriotic]

All our holidays are tied to islam Alhamdulilah

 

[hinters]

Independence Day ig

 

[ditto]

I only know about Eid and Independence Day. Wish we had more tbh, it would be a fun way to get the community together and celebrate our culture.

 

[killerxsmoke]

Are there any specific Somali holidays that aren’t the usual islamic holidays?

We got dabshid

 

[Soul Kaizer]

We got dabshid

Also Istunka which is celebrated on the somali new year.

I remember reading about holidays which were made to celebrate the rainy season. Do you know what i am talking about?

 

[mohammdov]

The birth of the ancestors, where each clan claims that its grandfather was born at some point and identifies him with the stars
For example, we have our eighth grandfather buried in South Hargeisa when naafcade come It is between June and July
His descendants go to his grave and stay there for three days, slaughtering and doing other weird traditional things
But we stopped doing it since 2005. It is haraam, and the same is true for other Somalis, I think

 

[Emir of Zayla]

Do festivals/fairs count? Because there’s a fair thats old in Berbera for trade that brings in stuff from all over the horn/arabia/india. I made a post about it a while back

Berbera’s Annual Fair

One certainty about Berbera over the many centuries was that it was the site of an annual fair, held between October and April, which Mordechai Abir describes as "among the most important commercial events of the east coast of Africa."[21]The major Somali sub-clans of the Isaaq in Somaliland...

www.somalispot.com

 

[bohom]

All our holidays are tied to islam Alhamdulilah

Very rare nowadays to find a country with only the prescribed Islamic holidays, alhamdulilah Somalia is one of them.

 

[Soul Kaizer]

Do festivals/fairs count? Because there’s a fair thats old in Berbera for trade that brings in stuff from all over the horn/arabia/india. I made a post about it a while back

Berbera’s Annual Fair

One certainty about Berbera over the many centuries was that it was the site of an annual fair, held between October and April, which Mordechai Abir describes as "among the most important commercial events of the east coast of Africa."[21]The major Somali sub-clans of the Isaaq in Somaliland...

www.somalispot.com

That counts.

 

[DALMAR0_0]

Also Istunka which is celebrated on the somali new year.

I remember reading about holidays which were made to celebrate the rainy season. Do you know what i am talking about?

Dabshid and istunka are both new year celebrations i believe.