The part about Oromo captures is relevant to all Somali history. What do you think we did with them after fighting them so much and taking alot of their land? We've got the most land per ethnic group in Africa for a reason.
Closest thing is "Berber slaves sold from Zayla" but they were, as Ive shown, most likely Nilotics, Oromos or Ethiopians as Berber encompassed the whole horn of Africa before it became a diluted word used and misused by many. Shit google berber today and you get some Morrocan ethnic group@Caraweelo X show me one credible primary or secondary source that proves that Arabs enslaved Somalis.
I'll be waiting.
None of these sources outright state that Somali slaves were taken - all that is mentioned is "intermarriage" with Arabs which, shockingly, was a thing back then, and still is. It's how the cadcads in xamar are around today. However intermarriage with Arabs isn't what has given us our appearance, any non-african DNA we have is thousands and thousands of years old, well before 'arabs' existed and due to a back-migration into Africa. The closest thing that's said to slavery in Somalia is that it was "a source of slaves", and this is true- but said slaves were not Somali. Tanzanian Bantu slaves were taken and shipped off to the Arab world - it's why the Somali Bantus living in Somalia today are descended from said groups in Tanzania. Let me know if I missed anything, but there seems to be a whole lot of mental gymnastics in your response - and the sources that clearly and explicitly state that somali weren't taken as slaves are ones you seem to be ignoring.
None of the sources you've listed say Somalis were slaves. I've read through the relevant parts of all believe me.
Slavery didn't start with the Omanis or Italians in the 1800s-1900s. And the last source as you see explicitly states Somalis were NOT among the slaves they sold or traded. From the 12th century.
What? Most intermarriages and assimilation into Somali society happened with Reer Xamars and Oromo captures.
Still you wont find difference between people in Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Bossaso, Kismayo, Jigjiga, NFD or any Somali territory.The footnote explicitly states Somalis were not or could not be sold as slaves. Even without Islam you couldnt sell us. The gaalo Brit and Italian didn't nor could they.
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People tend to think that light-skinned Somalis who also happen to have straight/loose curly hair are Arab-descended, there are no two ways about it, but it's a case of genetics. Some of us carry the allele for dark skin and some of us carry the allele for lighter skin. The same goes for hair.
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*The Ancient Egyptians had a few slaves (ancestors of modern Somalis) shipped to them from Punt.
People tend to think that light-skinned Somalis who also happen to have straight/loose curly hair are Arab-descended, there are no two ways about it, but it's a case of genetics. Some of us carry the allele for dark skin and some of us carry the allele for lighter skin. The same goes for hair.
The blue here represents the gene for light skin in people; look at the values for Somalis compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. Just like dark-skinned Somalis naturally exist, light-skinned ones exist too. The most common complexion is a brown/dark brown colour because that's simply the dominant gene. It always irritates me when people assume Arab ancestry in Somalis, as if it's impossible for us as an ethnic group to have lighter skin.
People tend to think that light-skinned Somalis who also happen to have straight/loose curly hair are Arab-descended, there are no two ways about it, but it's a case of genetics. Some of us carry the allele for dark skin and some of us carry the allele for lighter skin. The same goes for hair.
The blue here represents the gene for light skin in people; look at the values for Somalis compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. Just like dark-skinned Somalis naturally exist, light-skinned ones exist too. The most common complexion is a brown/dark brown colour because that's simply the dominant gene. It always irritates me when people assume Arab ancestry in Somalis, as if it's impossible for us as an ethnic group to have lighter skin.
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FGM and male circumcision was a custom that originated with Afro-asiatic peoples. We didn't take anything from them, we shared both of these customs with Ancient Egyptians and Arabs because we are in the same ethno-linguistic group. There's no proof of dhaanto being taken fromt he Ancient Egyptians, it's definitely one of our indigenous customs.
Not sure where this copying comes from considering these could just be a part of some of the common cultural legacies we share with Egyptians as Cushitic people. I already told you that we share FGM and circumcision with the Egyptian from both being Afro-asiatic. Who's to say that the same didn't happen here, and that we both share these cultural elements due to, thousands of years ago, originally coming from the same place? I'm not pulling the "WE WUZ EGYPTIANS" argument here, this is established fact;groups and sub-groups of the same ethno-linguistic designation share common cultural elements with each other. Not only linguistically, but culturally. It's just called the "Afro-asiatic" linguistic group because languages are much more stable than ethnic groups and are easier to track than human migrations and intermixing.@DuctTape Somalis have copied dances from the Ancient Egyptians as well as clothing/styles.
No such thing as "sharing" something. Someone did the copying and it's obvious it was the Somalis
