How were you introduced and educated about tribe?

[Arabman]

I don't remember when. However, as a kid, I realized I was different when kids in xaafada and school used to call me futo cadde, and I used to respond to them futo madoow.

[Gabre]

I don't remember when. However, as a kid, I realized I was different when kids in xaafada and school used to call me futo cadde, and I used to respond to them futo madoow.

Was this when your homosexual tendencies first manifested themselves?

[DayaxJeclee]

I don't remember when. However, as a kid, I realized I was different when kids in xaafada and school used to call me futo cadde, and I used to respond to them futo madoow.

Was this when your homosexual tendencies first manifested themselves?

Adi daandaansi bedanidaa.

[Arabman]

Adi daandaansi bedanidaa.

Runta aa sheegooyaa.

[DayaxJeclee]

Eebaa kuu maqan lee adi.

[barakaboy10]

Bunch of bull****

Every somali knows his/her tribe by age 5 or 6. I dont buy the notion that "i found out my qabiil @ age 14 or 15". Nonsense! If that was true it wouldnt have this much effect your narrow minds. qabil is something that has been encrpted in somali blood from the time of consumption and would last until cradle. So speak of the trueth. It will really free you up.

[InaSamaale]

I sort of always knew my sub clan, after having to address random guys that aren't related to you as adeer and women as eedo you start to pick up a pattern. The entire tribal tree system of clan and sub clan division I fully understood much later in life in my late teens during my conversations with my Ayeeyo and Awoowe. Aabo wrote our Abtirsi down for us when I was in my early teens, just passed the paper to my brothers as I wouldn't be needing it.

[NonSomaliGuy]

Bunch of bull****

Every somali knows his/her tribe by age 5 or 6. I dont buy the notion that "i found out my qabiil @ age 14 or 15". Nonsense! If that was true it wouldnt have this much effect your narrow minds. qabil is something that has been encrpted in somali blood from the time of consumption and would last until cradle. So speak of the trueth. It will really free you up.

Bullshit. I don't know my own tribe and there are plenty of Somalis who don't know their own tribe.

[saacJabshee]

Tribe wasn't discussed in my house. I knew my abtiris but by the time I was 6 I forgot it all. Ruunti since I joined snet I am learning more. I only know my qabil and sub qabil. I can count my name till the fourth name and that's it.

[BlackVelvet]

just passed the paper to my brothers as I wouldn't be needing it.

When I realised that there were no women and the implication of that, that my kids would pass on to some random man, I was so pissed. I went through a phase of "my kids are going to have hyphenated surnames". Then I realised I'd just be passing on the names of the men in my family anyway so I relented, stupid male invention can kiss my ass.

I don't even know my great grand mothers' first names

[Based]

Don't remember hearing anything about qabiil before the age of 8, where I was introduced to abtirsi. I didn't know anything beyond being Marehan/Darood until I joined snet, where I was introduced to the abtirsi/divisions of other clans/sub-clans of Darood. I'm still pretty shaky on the divisions of Hawiye beyond Hiraab and the rest, Isaaq beyond HY, HJ, and HA, Mj beyond Mohamud Saleeban & others, while the subdivisions of Ogaden, Dhulbahante, and other clans still remain a complete mystery.

[HilaacHills]

I only knew my sub sub sub clan name growing up. Because my hooyo's ayeeyo was also from that clan and markay hooyo, habaryarahay and abtiyaashay ku shidantahay ayey jokingly odhan jirtay inagaa isku reer hebel ah oo wax isu ah. That was like my 3 years growing up with my reer abtigay in Hargaysa. And growing up in Sweden in my household no one never really talked about qabiil so I oblivious to clans and that stuff.
I remember when I was in 7th grade in jr high, this somali girl in my class asking me and my best friend what clans we were from. My best friend was like "reer muqdhiso lee ahay ani mugoo, wax kaleeto ma aqaani nooh" I loved her And when I told her my sub sub sub clan, she was like "what clan is that, never heard of it before" Mid shufto ah bay ahayd taasi, and hablo ka sii shuftaysan transformed to our school the following year. Oo qabyaalada sida biyaha u soo cabay. Anyways, kuwaas taariikhdooda isku geli maayo'e..

Got exposed to my tribe for the first time when I went back home, year 2010. I visited my aabo and reerihiisa in burco , and they got really angered by the fact that I didn't knew awoowgay's name and said "hogaa, inanta maxaa wax loo bari wayeey" So before I left, my aabo wrote down my abtirsi in a paper and...that's about it. I think i still have the paper somewhere.


I'm completely ignorant when it comes to other clans and heck even my own clan and I don't plan learning about them either because waxay i tarayaan ayaa iska yar. Same with my kids, I won't tell them anything.

[STARKAST]

Looks like this new generation are gonna turn out like African Americans, no roots at all. Sad.

[Skippa]

around ‘88 during the war…

[barakaboy10]

Bunch of bull****

Every somali knows his/her tribe by age 5 or 6. I dont buy the notion that "i found out my qabiil @ age 14 or 15". Nonsense! If that was true it wouldnt have this much effect your narrow minds. qabil is something that has been encrpted in somali blood from the time of consumption and would last until cradle. So speak of the trueth. It will really free you up.

Bullshit. I don't know my own tribe and there are plenty of Somalis who don't know their own tribe.

if you don't know your tribe and as your name suggests, you are not a real somali. somalis know their tribes from get-go.

are you african american?