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Somalis constitute the largest ethnic group in Somalia, at approximately 98% of the nation's inhabitants. [6] They are organized into clan groupings, which are important social units; clan membership plays a central part in Somali culture and politics. Clans are patrilineal and are typically divided into sub-clans, sometimes with many sub ...
Statistics Canada's 2006 census ranks people of Somali descent as the 69th largest ethnic group in Canada. [205] UN migration estimates of the international migrant stock 2015 suggest that 1,998,764 people from Somalia were living abroad. [206] [207] Somali women at a political function in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. [14] Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [15] [16] [17] of which over 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though the former is the ...
Somalia is a nation on the Horn of Africa with a population of approximately 18 million people. [1] As of 2022, the country has an adult literacy rate [a] of about 41%. [2][3] There is a significant gender disparity in literacy rate, with 54% of men and only 22% of women being literate. [4][5] According to USAID, the youth literacy rate [b] is ...
Ministry of Education & Culture was the ministry that was responsible for education and culture in Somalia. The ministry has ten departments. On 17 January 2014, newly appointed prime minister , Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed , split the ministerial portfolio into Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, and Higher Education, respectively.
Education in Somalia refers to the academic system within Somalia. The Ministry of Education is officially responsible for education in Somalia, with about 15% of the nation's budget allocated to scholastic instruction. The breakaway republic of Somaliland maintains its own advanced Ministry of Education. [citation needed]
Ali A. Abdi. Ali A. Abdi is a Somali-Canadian sociologist and educationist. Currently, he is a professor of social development education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he previously served as head of department. Before that, he was a professor of International Education ...
Somalis have a rich musical heritage centered on traditional Somali folklore. Most Somali songs are pentatonic; that is, they only use five pitches per octave in contrast to a heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale. Somali art is the artistic culture of the Somali people, both historic and contemporary.