Kabole
The Kabole (also Kavole or Kaboole ) are an ethnic minority in Somalia . They live in the Shabeellaha Dhexe region on the Shabelle River as arable farmers and are connected as a kind of "client" to the Molcal, a clan of the Hawiye - Somali .
Some traditions attribute the Kabole, together with the Makanne, to a Molcal slave named Kabole . These groups - like the Shidle and others - probably descend from a population that lived in that area before the Somali and after their arrival was forced into a patron-client relationship with the nomadic Somali. In the course of time these groups were also joined by runaway and released slaves.
They are all considered different by the Somali on the basis of physical characteristics and are referred to as Jarir ("hard-haired" or "curly haired" as opposed to "soft-haired" for Somali). In part, they are included in the name Somali Bantu , which has been used for slave descendants and other ethnic minorities in Somalia since the 1990s. However, it is unclear whether they originally spoke a Bantu language.
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- Ioan M. Lewis : Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho , Ethnographic survey of Africa: North-Eastern Africa, Part I , International African Institute , London, 1955 (pp. 31, 41–42)
- Ioan M. Lewis: A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa , reprint 1999, ISBN 9783825830847 (p. 22)
- Ken Menkhaus: Bantu ethnic identities in Somalia , in: Annales d'Ethiopie , N o 19, 2003