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The history of Midgaan
Taariikhda Midgaha
“Waxaan
ahayn Ummadii Dhulkaan iska lahayd, waxaan ahayn Boqortooyadii ugu
Horeysay ee ka dhalatay Meesha maanta loo yaqaano Somalia. Waxaa boqor
tooyadeena loo yaqaanay Boqortooyadii “BOONTA” Dulkaan waxaa la
oran jirey Dhulkii Boonta “BOONTLAND”oo macneheedu yahay Dhulkii
Boontu iska lahayd. Boqorkii ka talin jirey waxaa la oran jirey
Baidari, wuxuu ahaa Boqorka ummadda Boonta xukumi jirey.
Wuxuu ka talin jirey qayb ka mid ah dhulka Geeska Afrika wuxuu
xiriir ganacsi la lahaa Dalka Masaarida, shiinaha, Hindiya, iyo
Boqortooyadii Rooma..
Qarnigii 12aad ayaa Ummadd
ka soo haajirtey dalal kala duwan oo isugu jirta Carab iyo Afrikaan
ayaa Jabisay Boqortooyadii Boonta, waxayna gow-gowreceen ummaddii
dhulkaas daganeyd intii badneyd. Intii kaloo soo harteyna way
qaybsadeen waxayna u bixiyeen magacyo fara badan, sida Midgaan,
Boon, Tumaalo, Yaharo, Yibro, Jaaji, Gabooye iyo magacyo kale oo
badan. Macagyadaan ayaa ilaa maantana loo yaqaanaa, sida xaqiiqda ah
dadkani waa umamadii dhulka iska lahayd waana boqortooyo jabtay,
waxaana daliil u ah in markii hore ay jabisay boqortooyadii Massar
qarnigii lixaad, ka dibna waxaa jabiyay ummado isugu jira carab iyo
African oo ka soo haajiray dalal kala duwan. Aqri taariikhdan soo
socota ee luqada qalaad (English) ku qoran tanina waa baaritaan aan
sameeyay waxaan helayna waa kan:
After I heard this
narrations, I tried to make more research in order to verify or
make sure that this story is Authentic and reliable truth. So I am
trying to proof three things historically, orally and Linguistically,
First of all, I have to answer all these questions; was there any
people called Boonta? Is it true that Egyptians had once invaded
the land of the Punt? Do Boontite people have Kings and Chiefs?
What is the different between Boon, Midgan, and Sab? And also who were
the natives of Somalia? Who are the true natives in Horn of
Africa Sab groups or Somalis? What part of their history continued to
be meaning full for them? What historical knowledge did they call upon
to define their ancestors? How do they can explain or understand the
circumstances of their ancestors connecting to the present? How their
past has impacted or affected their present life?
One more interesting
record mentioned, the Book of “The Ethiopian A history”
“Egyptian inscriptions recorded that during the fourth Dynasty
(3100-2965 B.C) the son of Cheops, the builders of Great Pyramids, was
in possession of Puntite slaves”. (Richard Pankhurst, 1998, The
Ethiopian A history) 14.
Before, in the twelfth
century, the ancient kingdom of Boontite had controlled all over the
area presently known as Somalia, there was no in Horn of Africa people
called Somalis before twelfth century, today those who call themselves
Somalis were people who merged from different ethnics and united for
the aim to defeat the Bootite Kingdom. Latter Somalis succeeded to
defeat and divide the citizens of this land and finally the kingdom of
Boontite was being invaded, the land of Boontite was automatically
transferred from the hands of natives to the hands of raiders. Where
are the Boontite people today? Are they invisible slaves or clients?
But here consider this question, when Boontite people were defeated
and divided why Somalis in 12th and colonists such as Italy and
British in 18th centuries chose to enslaved African Bantu rather than
Midgans?
Another record has
remarked, according Pankhurst, said; “ King Peppy II
(2738-2644 B.C. of the sixty Dynasty subsequently noted that he had a
tenq, or small-boned slaves from the Punt” (Richard Pankhurst,
1998, The Ethiopian A history) 14.
So now it became very
comprehensible for us that the Egyptians had invaded the land of the
Punt and had taken some of the Puntite people into slavery according
both written evidence and oral history agreed into clear historically
points, also there was so much evidence that supports there was a
kingdom in Somalia before arrival of the immigrants.
(“Agree in expelling the
Midgan from the gentle blood of Somaliland, …many Midgans employ
themselves in hunting and agriculture. Instead of spear and shield,
they carry bows and a quiver full of diminutive arrows, barbed and
poisoned with the wabaio weapon used from Faizoghli to the Cape of
Good Hope. …The poison is greatly feared. It causes, say the people,
the hair and nails to drop off, and kills a man in half an hour. The
only treatment known is instant excision of the part”)
(Richard F. Burton,
1856, First footsteps of East Africa).
“On the pictured plates
at Deir-El-Baheri, the huts of the people of Punt were like the Toquls
of modern Sudanese, being built on piles approach by the ladders. The
birds were like a species common among Somalis. The fishes were not
like those of Egypt. The wife of the King of Punt appears with a form
like Bongo women with exaggerated organs of maternity”.
(Wonderful Ethiopians
of the ancient Cushite Empire, Houston, Drusilla Dunjee, 1926)
“The Somalis (Midgan)
race, the most interesting, the most proud, the most courageous and
intelligent, and the most ‘difficult’ of the races of
Africa, has gone into politics, for if they do not others will, in
this age of turmoil, and if by some strange chance Hersi should read
this (he was always in touch with the west I would be happy to have
contact with him again”…….“You can not beat them. They
have no inferiority complexes, no wide-eyed worship of the white
man’s ways, and no fear of him, of his guns or of his official anger.
They are a race to be admired, if hard to love”… “He (Hirad)
claimed that they were the original inhabitants of the Somali-lands
who had lost the great and final battle near Hargeysa and were then
taken into slavery until they became Mohammedans. After that they were
Mohammedans slaves instead of mere slaves. They became metalworkers,
carpenters, herbalists, hunters, and leathers workers. Every Somali
woman, when she was ready to bear her child, liked to have a Midgan
woman present. Wedding and dances were not complete without Midgan
dressed in their gay colors and bringing luck to the nobles”
Gerald Hanley, 1941,
Warriors Life and death among the Somalis
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this history
Compiled By
Ahmed M. Keynan B.A.
"Ali-Azhar"
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