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KnowThySelf23 wrote: ugh you made me read the whole thing and there is no mention of somalis anywhere...unless your trying to say we are the same as ethiopians smh

furthermore he only mentions Ethiopians as a whole and fails to understand that theres more the 1 ethiopian tribe


probably white propaganda bulshit

TheMailMan wrote:


I don't know. That's a tough one. I don't identify with either the Arab or the African. I definitely don't identify with the White or the Asian. If the "African" just so happened to be an Ethiopian or Eritrean, then I would pick him.

KnowThySelf23 wrote:itrah....let me explain something to you....the somalis you see now...are obviously mixed.. and they came from somewhere other than east africa, as somalia was inhabited by berbers before these somalis came along...chances are we come from a mixture of ethiopians and black arabs....nonetheless please don't associate us with kenyan bantus and f-king west africans....i mean i love them as my fellow africans but we don't share genetics...no fuck that... my hair is too soft dammit...and look at my nose....that aint bantu...or west african!!

Somaliwaste wrote:Somalia was inhabited by Berbers before the Somali's came???? LOL that never happened I think you are confusing the current Berbers with the Barbara, also referred to as Bilad al-Barbar (Land of the Berbers), was an ancient region on the northern coast of the Somalia which was named that way by the Arabs and the land of the Bantu's was called Bilad Al Zanji. The North African Berbers never set foot on our soil in large groups, except for Ibn Battuta travels to Mogadishu and Saylac.

KnowThySelf23 wrote:

Somaliwaste wrote:Somalia was inhabited by Berbers before the Somali's came???? LOL that never happened I think you are confusing the current Berbers with the Barbara, also referred to as Bilad al-Barbar (Land of the Berbers), was an ancient region on the northern coast of the Somalia which was named that way by the Arabs and the land of the Bantu's was called Bilad Al Zanji. The North African Berbers never set foot on our soil in large groups, except for Ibn Battuta travels to Mogadishu and Saylac.

LOOOL look it up...google is your friend...those imposters are every where....

ps. french montana is half somali half berbera morrocan ...they fuckin each other too! smh

Somaliwaste wrote:

KnowThySelf23 wrote:

Somaliwaste wrote:Somalia was inhabited by Berbers before the Somali's came???? LOL that never happened I think you are confusing the current Berbers with the Barbara, also referred to as Bilad al-Barbar (Land of the Berbers), was an ancient region on the northern coast of the Somalia which was named that way by the Arabs and the land of the Bantu's was called Bilad Al Zanji. The North African Berbers never set foot on our soil in large groups, except for Ibn Battuta travels to Mogadishu and Saylac.

LOOOL look it up...google is your friend...those imposters are every where....

ps. french montana is half somali half berbera morrocan ...they fuckin each other too! smh

I fucks with you, but that shit has to be sarcastic or else you losing it lmao

his is from the The Cambridge History of Africa, Volum III from 1050 to 1600.:

"The Arab geographers generally
used terms such as Habasha for the people of the Ethiopian interior
regardless of whether they were Christian, Muslim or pagan; Berber
for the inhabitants of the Horn, whom they sometimes qualified as
'black Berbers', to distinguish them from the Berbers of the Maghrib;
and Zanj, for the various peoples of darker complexion whom they
located beyond the Habasha and the' black Berbers' ......
"In fact, there was a basic continuity
in the use of the term Berber since the first century of the Christian
era, to describe the land and the people of the Horn. The Periplus,
Claudius Ptolemy, and Cosmas Indicopleustes employed it in much the
same way as the Arab geographers did after the ninth century. There seems to be no doubt now that the Arab geographers had particularly
the Somali in mind when they spoke of the 'black Berbers' of the Horn;
and the earlier use of the term by Greek writers may very well indicate
a more ancient occupancy of the Horn by the same stock of people."

pg--134 to 136

KnowThySelf23 wrote:

his is from the The Cambridge History of Africa, Volum III from 1050 to 1600.:

"The Arab geographers generally
used terms such as Habasha for the people of the Ethiopian interior
regardless of whether they were Christian, Muslim or pagan; Berber
for the inhabitants of the Horn, whom they sometimes qualified as
'black Berbers', to distinguish them from the Berbers of the Maghrib;
and Zanj, for the various peoples of darker complexion whom they
located beyond the Habasha and the' black Berbers' ......
"In fact, there was a basic continuity
in the use of the term Berber since the first century of the Christian
era, to describe the land and the people of the Horn. The Periplus,
Claudius Ptolemy, and Cosmas Indicopleustes employed it in much the
same way as the Arab geographers did after the ninth century. There seems to be no doubt now that the Arab geographers had particularly
the Somali in mind when they spoke of the 'black Berbers' of the Horn;
and the earlier use of the term by Greek writers may very well indicate
a more ancient occupancy of the Horn by the same stock of people."

pg--134 to 136¨¨

KnowThySelf23 wrote: he somalis you see now...are obviously mixed.. and they came from somewhere other than east africa, as somalia was inhabited by berbers before these somalis came along

KnowThySelf23 wrote:pps. Ibn battuta I believe referred to the people living in Mogadishu as "dark-skinned berbers"(the ancestors of modern somalis), and as he was a Moroccan berber himself, it's interesting that he would use this term to describe the people there.