Shidle

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“Bantu” children in a village near Jawhar
Map of the ethnic groups in Somalia 1977; ethnic minorities, including Shidle, in red.

The Shidle (Italian Scidle ) are an ethnic minority in Somalia who live as arable farmers in the valley of the Shabelle River near Jawhar . They are “ clients ” with the nomadic ranchers of the Mobileen-Mudulood- Hawiye .

The name Shidle is said to be derived from the word shid for " millstone ", especially since this is characteristic of their sedentary rural way of life.

Like the Makanne further up the river near Beledweyne , they probably descend from a black African population who lived in that area before the Somali . This population is said to have been joined by escaped and released slaves over time. In part, the shidle are included in the collective term " Somali Bantu ", which has been in use since the 1990s for the descendants of Bantu slaves and, in a broader sense, for all black African minority groups in Somalia. However, it is unclear whether they originally spoke a Bantu language.

Muhammad Qulid al-Rashidi of the Sufi Order of the Salihiyya founded two religious settlements in the Shidle area, where he died in 1918.

At the time of the Italian Somaliland colony , Luigi Amadeo of Savoy founded the Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi , later Jawhar, in their area in 1920 .

During the Somali civil war , the Shidle were increasingly harassed by members of the Hawiye and Darod Somali clans.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Massimo Colucci 1924, cit. in 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)
  2. ^ Library of Congress Country Studies : Somalia: Religious Orders and the Cult of the Saints
  3. ^ IM Lewis: Review of La Somalia e l'Opera del Duca degli Abruzzi by Clelia Maino , in: Journal of the International African Institute , Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 1960)