Hawo tako was fine human being, a TRUE patriot, and RARE jewel.. was a fierce nationalist in '40s.led the resistance against the italian occupation of southern somalia. She preached nationalism to her fellow lady friends, sold off the meagre personal possessions in order to support the then nascent SYL and other nationalist groups. She also exhorted her fellow sisters to sell whatever they can afford, oo xaafad xaafad ayee qaaraanka u aadi jirtay. She finally ku shahiiday bravely in the very struggle, during the Dhagaxtuur massacre..She was orator ,fearless .patriotic,nationalist and religious. The martyrs massacred that day, including Xaawo Taako, in early 1948 were protesting against the return of Talyaanis and voicing an immediate independence of Soomaaliya
