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Somali
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Somali

Any member of a large group of people occupying all of Somalia and parts of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Their language is of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Numbering more than seven million, the Somalis are divided into northern, central, and southern groups. All have been Muslim since at least the 14th century. They are primarily nomadic herdsmen who, because of intense competition for scarce resources, have been extremely individualistic and frequently involved in blood feuds or wars with neighbouring clans or peoples. A second category of Somalis are the townspeople and agriculturalists of the urban centres, especially along the coast of the Horn of Africa, many of whom act as commercial middlemen between the Arab world and the nomads of the interior.



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I see it in Seattle, where there are substantial groups of Somalians, Eritreans, and Ethiopians, each with their cultural centers and their own artists.
African art and culture in Maine by Ottenberg, Simon / African Arts
Statements excerpted from Service Learning Reflective Analysis Papers: A female student wrote the following after completing service learning in a family literacy center serving Somalians.
Doing diversity through service learning by Good, Linda / Academic Exchange Quarterly
They're smiling now; tall, smooth-skinned Somalians, gaunt Ruandans, gentle, full-faced Ghanaians, gold-bangled Nigerians making their Victorian values heard (not for them the two-inch band of flesh at their waist, tops of knickers showing) and the two Dagenham lads, sitting apart, asking if this geezer was a brother of Groucho.
First Day Back by Champion, Ken / African American Review
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