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Aar Maanta – singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer; Abdi Sinimo (c. 1920s–1967) – artist and inventor of the Balwo musical style; Abdullahi Qarshe (1924–1994) – musician, poet and playwright known for his innovative styles of music which included a wide variety of musical instruments such as the guitar, piano, and oud
Osman Yusuf Kenadid – history, science and philosophy; Said Sheikh Samatar – linguistics and sociology; Shire Jama Ahmed – linguistics and sociology; Virginia Luling – history; Sada Mire – archaeology and history; Hussein M. Adam – politics and history. Prof Omar Enow- identity, minority studies and discrimination in Somalia
Asli Hassan Abade is a retired Somali Air force pilot, military figure, and civil activist. She was the first African female pilot and so far the only female pilot in the Somali Air Force (SAF). [1] As of October 2009, she was living in the U.S. state of Texas.
Simur was also an ancient Harari alias for the Somali people. [60] Somalis overwhelmingly prefer the demonym Somali over the incorrect Somalian since the former is an endonym, while the latter is an exonym with double suffixes. [61] The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical sense is Horner and from an ethnic sense, it is Cushite. [62]
Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland.They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived.
For many years, school curricula have limited their scope to the same Black figures throughout history. While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are ...
On 20 July 1961 and through a popular referendum, the people of Somalia ratified a new constitution, which was first drafted in 1960. [108] In 1967, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal became Prime Minister, a position to which he was appointed by Shermarke. Egal would later become the President of the autonomous Somaliland region in northwestern Somalia.
19 Black figures who changed history. TheGrio. September 23, 2024 at 8:10 AM. ... Of all the historical Black figures on this list, you’re probably most familiar with Barack Obama, the Hawaiian ...