Those that understand somali culture, pleas explain to me...

[Deeqaaa]

Somali camel trade

[Typhoon]

These guys are apparently negotiating a price but there seems to be some technic going on under the blanket.
Can someone explain to me the details and procedures in terms of trading in somali market and the certain technics deployed.

they are negotiating prices by communicating with their fingers, they are hiding the process to keep it private in the midst of all those people who also know the "hand language" for a lack of a better word, in wall street the guy peeking in would be a speculator loool

thank you bro, you are like a white girl in a ghetto Compton high school, you seem like the only one with a answer.
Now,do you know how it works and is there a particular gestural language involved that is universal among all somali market traders.

I like your point on the speculators, its shows-cases the fox like nature of somalis, they practise capitalism with consensus but manipulation is part of the system. I like the blanket it must be their equivalent of adam smiths Invisible hand ( who knows maybe that got that from us)

now I need more details on this subject, our friend incognito1 has reached his intellectual and mental ceiling, from this moment on he is beyond capacity.
asking him anything further would bring to the forefront his irir intellectual ineptness(no offence its biology its hard to overcome)

[unstoppablefade]

@unstoppable, shouldn't you be
Taking notes or something.. Smh.

Uhm ur in xamar iska amuus shouldn't you be eating cambuulo and fufu

[Amira143]

^^ I'm actually about to eat cambuulo..

[BeyondQabil]

Pretty common Nomadic culture. Even very urban Kalenjins in Kenya do something similar with their hands. It's price negotiation.

[ramzy2277]

هذا النوع من المعاملة التجارية معروف ومشهور في جمهورية صوماليلاند وبخاصة في سوق المواشي حيث يتم المصافحة بين البائع و المشتري ويبدأؤن التفاوض بسعر الماشية عن طريق الاصابع ولا اعرف بالضبط كيف يحددون المبلغ ولكن كل حركة تدل على مبلغ ويضعون العمامة فوق ايديهم حتى لايعلم المنافسون بالسعر المتفق عليه ويبدأ بالمنافسة وتنزيل السعر فيضعون العمامة للحفاظ على السرية...هناك فيديوهات في اليوتيوب توضح مثل هذا التقليد في صوماليلاند

[Thuganomics]

What they do is pull one finger to mean
1 or 10 or 100 or 1000
Two fingers to mean
2 or 20 or 200 or 2000

etc

Obviously the more expensive the object item or livestock for sale the more figures the finger represents

[Jeffo]

MOTHER JUST SHOWED ME THE SECRET HAND SIGNALS!

WE SOMALLINATI NOW!

[Typhoon]

What they do is pull one finger to mean
1 or 10 or 100 or 1000
Two fingers to mean
2 or 20 or 200 or 2000

etc

Obviously the more expensive the object item or livestock for sale the more figures the finger represents

makes sense, its like trading floors of commodities market.
well thank you Thuganomics, you the only one that gave a plausible explanation.
its befitting that you as idoor gave a answer, idoors are biggest market speculators, they are the quintessential middleman(noting wrong with that, the neo-liberal world order honours that culture)

[incognito1]

These guys are apparently negotiating a price but there seems to be some technic going on under the blanket.
Can someone explain to me the details and procedures in terms of trading in somali market and the certain technics deployed.

they are negotiating prices by communicating with their fingers, they are hiding the process to keep it private in the midst of all those people who also know the "hand language" for a lack of a better word, in wall street the guy peeking in would be a speculator loool

thank you bro, you are like a white girl in a ghetto Compton high school, you seem like the only one with a answer.
Now,do you know how it works and is there a particular gestural language involved that is universal among all somali market traders.

I like your point on the speculators, its shows-cases the fox like nature of somalis, they practise capitalism with consensus but manipulation is part of the system. I like the blanket it must be their equivalent of adam smiths Invisible hand ( who knows maybe that got that from us)

now I need more details on this subject, our friend incognito1 has reached his intellectual and mental ceiling, from this moment on he is beyond capacity.
asking him anything further would bring to the forefront his irir intellectual ineptness(no offence its biology its hard to overcome)

thanks for the compliments brother but its not that big of a deal, plus i didnt go out of my way to learn this i just witnessed it while i was at suuqa xoolaha in garissa. i was like the speculator you just saw, but at that time the men i was watching didnt hide their trade.

ps. i like your threads man very usefull info always respect brother.

[incognito1]

What they do is pull one finger to mean
1 or 10 or 100 or 1000
Two fingers to mean
2 or 20 or 200 or 2000

etc

Obviously the more expensive the object item or livestock for sale the more figures the finger represents

i dont know about that man, but where i was the fingers represented an ammount like the greek numericals.

pinky (01)
ring finger (05)
middle finger (10)
index finger (100)
the thumb (1000)

if we went with your example it would take forever to buy 100 camels,ranging in price from 200,500, 600, 1000 each. you would be pulling fingers till makhrib comes lool.