The Hararis had their own city-state, their own royal family, a distinct language and a distinct culture. Yes, Harar had a large Somali population before Menelik’s conquest and subsequent purge, but a legitimate ethnicity that we know as the Hararis today had already formed by then. The real tragedy today is that they have no safe haven, no military counterweight, and no economic leverages to thwart the advances of larger ethnicities in the Horn, only their cultural distinction separates them from extinction. We as their historical partners should not entertain these theories that erases them as a people.