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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
This is a list of Somalists. These scholars specialize in Somali Studies , the scholarly term for research concerning Somali people and Greater Somalia . Notable Somalist scholars
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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]
The average person is able to trace his/her ancestry generations back. Somali clans in contemporary times have an established official structure in the country's political system, acknowledged by a mathematical formula for equitably distributing seats between the clans in the Federal Parliament of Somalia. [19] [20] [21]
also: Countries: Somalia: People This category is about people who are nationals of Somalia . For people of the Somali ethnic group , see Category:Ethnic Somali people .
Raqiya Haji Dualeh Abdalla, sociologist and politician; President of the Somali Family Care Network; Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman, politician and judge; former Minister of Defence of Somalia; Ayaan Hirsi Ali, writer, political activist, former legislator; Abukar Arman, political analyst, writer and diplomat; former Special Envoy of Somalia to the U.S.
Mohamed Mohamud Ibrahim, Deputy Foreign Minister of Somalia (formerly lived in Harlesden) Magid Magid, Green Party politician; former Lord Mayor of Sheffield (2018-2019) and MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber (2019-2020) Sir Mark Hendrick, Labour MP for Preston (2000-present)