What has Somalia or Somalis contributed to the World ??

[Adali]

http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/ ... Scientists

Im posting the research done by a poster in Somaliaonline, hes done a good job. Im just gonna paste some of the high achievements made.

Abdusalam Abubakar is a Somali scientist who won the BT Young Scientist of the year 2007 award. He invented a new method of attacking secure electronic communications systems developed by scientists in the 80s and currently used worldwide by banks, the military and e-commerce websites. His security code breaker earned him the European scientist of the year award 2007

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Dr Warsame Ali is a Somali scientist specialized in Aerospace Technology and has worked for well known Space technology centers such as NASA. Some of his groundbreaking research papers and projects are: Aircraft Ice Detection; Testing and evaluation of various sensors for detection of ice on aircraft wings (1997) - Using the DSP chip for voice recognition. Use of the computer with DSP interface circuitry to recognize voice commands and issue appropriate control signals funded by NASA (1997) - Development and Demonstration of a highly efficient hybrid vehicle with better than zero emission (2000)

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Dr Alim Ahmed Fatah is a Somali scientist and inventor of the Postage stamp cancellation ink used in all US postal services. He also jointly developed a new safer system for the treatment of waste from printing inks

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Dr Musse Gabobe Hassan is a Somali scientist who's research work has been recognized and used by BioSonics, Inc. (which is an engineering and manufacturing firm that specializes in applying hydroacoustics to monitor and assess aquatic biological resources.) Awards: He won Best Speaker Award for Young Scientists during the Second International Conference on the Straits of Malacca, 15th - 18th October, 2001, Penang, Malaysia. He won the Golden Award during the Exhibition & Award for Research and Innovation 13-14 August 2002", University of Putra Malaysia. He won the Bronze Award for the Exhibition & Award for Research and Development 19-20 August 2004, Institute of Biosciences, University of Putra Malaysia.

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Dr. Ahmed Mumin Warfa is a Somali scientist who jointly discovered the new plant genus Cyclamen Somalense in 1986( together with his collegue Maths Thulin) in the Al Miskat Mountains of Somalia

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Abdisalam Hassan is a Somali scientist specialized in Botany and completed a study on genus Ormocarpum

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Amina Mire is a Somali scientist who has published the critically acclaimed research paper Skin Pigmentation and Empire. Amina is currently a professor of contemporary sociological theory and Race and Ethnicity Studies at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University

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Abdiwahab A. Musse is a Somali scientist who with his colleagues at the University of Guelph and the Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario created a genetically modified mouse expressing an enzyme known as PAD2 at a higher frequency. They found that these mice had significant loss of myelin, and also displayed behavioral deficits, such as abnormal movement, balance, and coordination.

this is what i am talking about, these contributions are incredible.

MODELS

I agree our women are delicious but tbh being a Model is not an achievement and therefor can not count as a legitimate contribution.

Just to name a few..

1. Knowledge of the monsoons - According to Strabo the People of the Somali coast were the first to have a clear understanding of the seasonal shifts in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.

2. Shah boardgame - A Somali boardgame played from Egypt to Tanzania

3. Domestication of Camels.

The first one is legitimate and very useful to many other nations besides ours, The second sure, a popular game i accept that. The last, are you sure we were the first to domesticate the camel ? it would certainly explain why we have the largest camel population in the world.


what about the Macawiis, was this a Somali attire before anyone else ?? the south Asians learned it from the Arabs, those who wear the macawiis in northern arabia picked it up from Yemen, could it be possible that the yemenis picked it up from Somalis.

[DisplacedDiraac]

The last, are you sure we were the first to domesticate the camel ? it would certainly explain why we have the largest camel population in the world.

^ Yep.. I've read it in numerous places, which I believe are reliable..

First mounted Horsemen - Somali scientist Sada Mire recently revealed 5,000-year-old rock art that included a drawing of a mounted hunter.

Cause of Malaria - Somalis knew that the mosquito was the source of malaria long before it was scientifically proven in the west. This is why Somalis have only one word for both mosquitoes and malaria – kaneeco. In the book ‘First Footsteps in East Africa’ by Richard Burton published in 1856, the author mentioned how the Somalis believed that the mosquito bites were responsible for the deadly fevers (malaria). In his documentation of this, Richard Burton dismissed this Somali indigenous knowledge as superstition. 40 years after the publication of Richard Burton comments Somalis were proven right when Sir Ronald Ross who was born in England discovered that the Mosquitoes were in fact the cause of Malaria.