Haaway
Haaway or Avai is a place in the Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia . It is located in a swampy area on the lower reaches of the Shabelle River .
From the 1840s, black African slaves who had fled from the plantations in the Shabelle valley near Merka settled in Haaway . They became a kind of "client" of the local Somali clan, founded villages and farmed. In 1903 Haaway comprised six villages with a total population of about 3,000, two thirds of which were men.
Haaway was thus a small counterpart to the Gosha area on the Jubba River , where tens of thousands of former slaves also settled from the 1840s.
See also
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- Lee V. Cassanelli: The Ending of Slavery in Italian Somalia , in: Suzanne Miers, Richard Roberts (Eds.): The End of Slavery in Africa , ISBN 978-0299115548 (p. 322)
- Francesca Declich: "Gendered Narratives", History, and Identity: Two Centuries along the Juba River among the Zigula and Shanbara , in History in Africa , 22 (quoted in Gwyn Campbell: The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia , Routledge 2004, ISBN 9780714654867 (p. 62))
Coordinates: 1 ° 10 ' N , 43 ° 43' E