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They are a funny bunch walle. I didn't realise until recently that they have their own separate wajibook group called Just Isaaq Sijuis ay isku urursadan. And here i was thinking that they didn't know much about clans. Why do a significant portion of them seem disconnected from Somaliland yet they actually know their clan groupings Were's the Isaaq Djiboutians are very involved in Somaliland.

isaq ma lumo, where ever they are they always know meeshey ka soo jeedan.

It is good that they keep their roots strong despite the fact most of them are third/fourth generation Sijui born. They seem quite disconnected from Somaliland though in comparison to those from the old communities of Middle East.

the britsh lacky's whom were brought to Kenya by britain. waxaas wax lagu faano baa?

They are very integrated through intermarriage into Kenyan society from what I saw, particularly the Kikuyu and the Nilotes like Masai and Samburu.

Those make up a tiny percentage of the larger Isaaq Sijuis like Lord_Diplock explained. The ones i am refering to are full Isaaq like Amina Xirsi Mooge -HY-Cali Siciid the richest woman in Uganda who was born in Kenya, also her parents were born in those lands. Yet they don't seem that connected to the motherland in comparison to other old Isaaq diaspora groups.

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Sijuis in general are not a people to claim. Waa iska dhaqan Kenyan. They "know" who they are but they really do not have awareness of what that means. I know couple Marehan sijui; never seen a more disappointing bunch.

Amina Hersi sounds like my kind of woman.

That could explain why they seem quite different from other old diaspora Isaaqs. I have one Sijui Kenyan born Isaaq friend we talk about Somaliland sometimes, he likes Somaliland but visits Kenya most of the time. I asked him why? he said because most of his close relatives live in Kenya and that is where his parents were born. If that is the case for most of them then it is quite understandable.

The sijuis from Tanzania are worse wallahi

They speak a funny language but I have never had a bad experience with our Swahilizied brothers. I think they're far more civiliezd than the somalis of Somalia

They're prone to intermarriage, You know the owner of African Express Airways is Reer Gadiid/Sacad Muuse
but his mother is kikuyu/bantu.

The Isaaqs from Djibouti are well aware of their homeland, because they visit it every summer.
Certain town like Arabsiyo and Gabiley ...their populations are said to double in the summer due to the
amount of people coming there from Djibouti.

I haven't had the experience to meet a Isaaq Tanzanian Sijui yet. Overall though they seem educated and resourceful people such as Prof. Hussein M. Adam aka Hussein Tanzania, Amina Hersi Mooge just to name some.

SahanGalbeed wrote:They speak a funny language but I have never had a bad experience with our Swahilizied brothers. I think they're far more civiliezd than the somalis of Somalia

Me neither. I just find it strange how somebody can be that disconnected from their ancestral land especially that person being a "Isaaq" but then again i am not third/second generation or even first USA born. So i wouldn't know how it feels like. To have a certain attachment to a land different from your ancestral land.

I know this one sujui and he didn't even know his clan or where exactly his "forefathers" came from. He is in his late 20s. He kept saying "My forefathers come from a place called Somaliland. Maybe one day I will visit. But surely not now or in the near future. Possibly when I am older before I die"

I do not know about the males, but a true story is this: I used to live in a town with very few Somalis. One time a Isaaq lady came to town for a conference and I don't know the details but she had to stay in town for the weekend. She was taken to the house of a Isaaq Sijui lady for the night but the sijui lady refused to let her stay with her and said she does not know this woman eventhough people were telling her she is your tol, she refused. 10 pm. the guest was brought to my house . I can't genralize about this, but the impression I got was that Sijuis don't give a hoot about qabil!