Voltage wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:13 pm
By the way no one has ever said Darod or Marehan were ever majority or the most sizable presence of Benadir.
If we don't say that even under the Kacaan, what makes you think we would any other time?
However the Marehan on the Council does represent that Marehan have always had a presence especially in the city center and the elite/influencers.
Also knowing Somalis, I am not saying Marehan is elite to anyone; I am saying Benador was not the degaan of Marehan, so the only Marehan that would be there isn't our average joe, but the person who had DAN/INTEREST there so intellectuals/ilbax, etc
Whereas for example, Abgaal may be miscounted in the "city" when really Abgaal was based from Casa Populare (originally the shantytown housing the workers from neighboring clans) to Warsheikh to the northern beach.
So of course Abgal was very sizable in periphery of Mogadishu as a clan.
Whereas the Marehan seat there is important to represent the reer Aw-Maxamuuds, the reer Farmaajo, the Haji Xaashi, the reer Abdulle Hassans, the reer Jaamac Juges, the reer Xaashi Xaashi Daroods, the reer Biixi Ilaawes, etc.
The Marehan families whose sons ended up writing the Somali language, taking over Isbitaal Martiino, printing the first magazines, in 1960. etc.