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Habiiba ThePoet:
In my video I very clearly explain that the term "Somali" was not used by Arabs, in fact the word "Somali" was not recorded in writing until the 15th century. Somalis were often grouped with "Habesha", that's why in Arabic literature and even Islamic hadiths, the term "Somali" is never used. They knew of a portion of the horn of Africa as the "Land of Barbar" or Berber. In the book "Race and Color in Islam" by Benard Lewis he explains that "Africans are called either Habash or Sudan, the former designating the Ethiopians and their immediate neighbors in the Horn of Africa, the latter (an Arabic word meaning black) denoting blacks in general. It sometimes includes Ethiopian, but never Egyptians, Berbers, or other peoples north of the Sahara. Later, after the Arab expansion into Africa, other and more specific terms are added, the commonest being Nuba, Bujja (or Beja), and Zanj" (Page 30) This means Arabs did not say the word "Somali" even if they were talking about Somalis, who were located in the Horn.
The East African Slave Trade started during the 7th century. Moving onto where it explicitly states that Somalis were also sold as slaves in the Arab Slave Trade of East Africa is in the book βThe Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500-1000β by Timothy Power, Archeologist and Historian of Arabia and the Islamic World. He writes, βThe African slaves exported from Zaylaβ included both broadly βEthiopianβ peoples brought down to the coast from the interior, and βBerbersβ from the regions of modern Somalia. Muslim merchants were apparently active in the procurement of slaves from the interior, as already noted with reference to al-Istakhri. Al-Muqaddasi observes that βthe slaves [khadam]β¦exported to Aden, consist of Barbar and these are the worst of slaves.β
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The Somali Bantu (also called Gosha, and Mushunguli) are a Bantu ethnic marginalized group(s) in Somalia they are the descendants of slaves brought to Somalia from Southeast Africa and also Kenya and Tanzania. They primarily reside in the southern part of the country, primarily near the Jubba and Shabelle rivers. They are the descendants of people from various Bantu ethnic groups, who were acquisitioned from Southeast Africa and other areas in Northeast Africa.[3][4] Somali Bantus are not genetically related to the indigenous ethnic Somalis and have a culture which since their arrival in the country, has been distinct from the indigenous Somalis who are Cushitic and they have remained marginalized ever since their arrival in Somalia.[5]In 1991, 12,000 Bantu people were displaced into Kenya, and nearly 3,300 were estimated to have returned to Tanzania.[6]