Somali Muslim Missionaries in Oromia in the past

[Waachis]

''There were also Somalis who went as Muslim-Missionaries inside the Oromo-inhabited areas. The most active agents of Muslim diffusion were the Warra Qallu (priests in Afaan Oromo) who seemed to have first settled among the Ala-Oromos.
They started founding a new clan there which in the 1880's was still bilingual. Later on they established themselves among other subgroups of the Barentu Oromo as far as the Ittu in Carcar, but they all preserved the memory of their Somali origin.
Wherever they lived in a purely Oromo-speaking environment they occupied a position as Shaykhs and outstanding representatives of the Muslim religion.

Another and more spectacular type of Islamization was imposed on the surrounding Oromo by the emirate of Harar which was able to consolidate its position in the 19th century. It is for example reported that Abdullahi, the last amir of Harar (1885-87) initiated campaigns to strengthen Islam among the Oromo in the vicinity...''

Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia: Collected Essays
By Ulrich Braukamper, Ulrich Braukämper, pages 111-113

[paperino]

Waachis, why are you quoting Ulrich Braukämper as the eminent historian? Do you expect him, a non-Muslim, to be impartial? I'm sure your people have a written or oral history, so better quote the historians among you.

[Nubis]