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Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi – scholar, linguist and writer; published on Somali culture, history, language and ethnogenesis; Ali Jimale Ahmed – poet, essayist, scholar, and short story writer; published on Somali history and linguistics; Shire Jama Ahmed (c. 1935–1989) – linguist who devised a unique Latin script for the Somali language
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 . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Asli was popular in the Somali air force, where she was a pilot from 1976 until the end of 1992 when civil war finally crippled Somalia.
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.
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 ...
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The Somali people in pre-Islamic times are believed to have adhered to a complex monotheistic belief system superseded by a single all-powerful figure called Eebbe/Waaq. Religious temples dating from antiquity known as Taallo were the centers where important ceremonies were held led by a Wadaad priest .
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]