lol this isn’t true Arabs are the second biggest ethnicity in the world a Arab sub sub sub sub sub sub sub tribe is bigger than all Somalis combined problem is geographically speaking you can tell which clan dominates a certain part of Somalia like OG in galbeed, Cisse in Djibouti, Mj in northeast, Hawiye in central Somalia but in Arabs you sort of can’t because their mixed together and kept together by Arab nationalism for instance the ruling tribe of Bahrain majority of it lives in Saudi Arabia while Somalis identify by hawiyenimo or daroodnimo or something nimo.
Those big tribes have no political or economic impact on society anymore. It's more or less a cultural identity at this point. Even before the colonial era, the Emir/Sheikh of a sub sub sub sub tribe is who ruled his land
Look at the UAE. The two families that rule the country are the Al Maktoum who rule Dubai, and the Al Nahyan who rule Abu Dhabi. Bot of these two clans are apart of the Bani Yas tribe. The Al Maktoum are apart of the Al Falasi branch of the Bani Yas, while the Al Nahyan are apart of the Al Falahi branch
The problem with Somalia is that we are still operating at the "Bani Yas" level while the arabs are operating at their Jufo level. Their tribal system is much older than ours so over time the macro-tribe stop being as important in their daily affairs. In a way their qabils were balkinized
Also many of them are descendants of bedouins who moved far away from their tribal homeland so they not even living next to their fellow members of their macro-tribe. When the different sub tribes of a macro tribe are not living next to one another then they start to act more independently. This made them more or less independent from one another. In Somalia Hawiye, Darod, Isaaq and Dir sub clans still share borders