UgaaskaBarakaysan wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:37 pm
Are the upper parts of this gobol still dominated by the Badicadde and Makanne, while the lower parts are contended by the Galjecel, Jijele, xawadle, and other jareer groups?
Sometimes I lapse too--- mostly because some of the Somali Bantu in the Jubba Valley have taken ownership over the word Jareer by calling themselves Jareerweyne as a political identity---but I will remind both of us the J word is pejorative particularly without the "weyne" political suffix amd especially the Shabelle Valley. I am starting to understanding "Shiidle", "Makanne", etc are more affirmed identities.
Extending into Ethiopia, they are called Reer Barre, Reer Shabelle, etc. Even Khelaafo isn't older than Beled-Weyne---it was made after colonialism commenced when the Ethiopians established a small local force next to the Shamba of Barri ("Reer Barre").
South of the Shabelle at Bari extending into Berdaale, the Gugandhabe and especially the Gaaljecel herded.
Xawaadle lived on the northern Banks at Bari after falling out with Ajuuraan and Baadi Cadde who were the masters over the Reer Barre/Makanne. The Ajuuraan in particular were the temporal lords ("Malaaq") over the nomads of the Gugandhabe while the Baadi Cadde were the spiritual lords (Wadaado-Imam as in sanctioned by the Harar Emirate as a "Zawiya" or Islamic mission).
Connecting the two were the Sheekhaal and the Reer Aw-Hassan in particular who functioned as moving missionaries between the nomadic wells (Wadaado-Aw/Au or "Xer").
Keep in mind how important these historical categorizations are and relevant to the historical context----while completely unremarkable to Somali historical amnesia today.
The Xawaadle lived under and were heavily integrated into Bah Geri Xeer. I mean from my reading, in another 50 years, it is possible Xawaadle would today be a Bah-Geri clan. This shows also how the Miyirwalaal/Ogaden themselves formed. At that time, Awlyahan were NOT considered Ogaden, and Makaahiil was traversed and described as "disaffected Marehan" .
{Gives a totally new twist to the famous repetitive Marehan remark "Reer Cusman and Reer Garaad Ogaadeen bay u galeen" after their fights with reer Hussein Yusuf Mataan (reer Diini, Farah Ugaas, Rer Axmed, rer Siyaad Xussein, Cali Xussein, etc)----now leaves me with suspicion that what was actually meant is not all reer Garaad and reer Cusmaan came back---may not even the majority and they may even have made Muqaabul}.
The river environmrnt itself was impossible for Somali nomads. I have always questioned why Marehan and Ogaden were directly on top of the land near the River but never on the Shabelle. It wasn't like that they weren't looking for fertile land. Moreover their daring migration to the Jubba Valley had certainly shown both the power and resources (spiritually and materially as it took a lot of drive and means)----so why weren't they? I got my answer in the 1800s after one of the explorers went to Marehan and asked Ugaas Nuur (the current Ugas is Mohamed Ugas Hashi Ugas Hersi Ugas Mohamed Ugas Nuur) and Ugaas Nuur scoffed basically saying you're a fool, the dsgusting brown waste (Shabelle River) kills everything, man and beast---there is nothing to see, it is ugly, it is brown, it doesn't move, and it kills everything but the "Adoni."
So guess what? The TSTETSE FLY! I have no idea how it was cleared or if something was done after colonialism (there has to be), but the Shabelle River and Valley starting down from the highlanda once it got to the flat and hot Somali plain was colonized by the Tsetse fly. The Tsetse killed man and it killed camels even faster! That's the beast Ugas Nuur meant because cattle could become immune to it. Perhaps due to their evolutionary history in farming and requiring similar environment, the Somali Bantu reer Shabelle must have carried herd immunity because they were the only ones ON the River until colonialism. Also the clans around the Shabelle River weren't there by choice. It was literally a consequence of evolutionary defeat in the battle for best grazing land. Also this absolutely has nothing to do with anything other than me contextualizing a historical fact.
Which brings me back to how Xawaadle entered Somalia and Hiiraan, why Bah Geri isn't reer Somalia and the entire false history that absolutely is not ONLY not part of historical record but is ACTUALLY disproven by it. Some people argue here "Hawiye" waged a battle and deprived Ogaden of settlement. No. Literally the opposite... Bah Geri and Cawlyahan following their opened trail forced their way into Hiiraan until the Tripartite "understanding" of who is in what sphere in the British-Ethiopia-Italian faceoff deprived Marehan of Shilabo and Wardheer and conversely Bah Geri of northern Hiiraan.
