Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow
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Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow was a famous Somali
poet from the Abgaal
Hawiye
clan who lived in the coastal area north of Mogadishu
in the first decades of the Italian occupation. He was well-known for the masafo, a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men.
Somali people
Somalis are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family...
poet from the Abgaal
Abgaal
Abgaal is a Somali clan, and part of the major Hawiye clan. Its members live in the Shabeellaha Dhexe, Galguduud, Banaadir, Mudug, Lower Shebelle, Middle Juba, and Jubbada Hoose regions of Central and southern Somalia...
Hawiye
Hawiye
The Hawiye is a Somali clan. Members of the clan primarily live in central and southern Somalia, in the Ogaden and the North Eastern Province , and in smaller numbers in other countries. Like many Somalis, Hawiye members trace their ancestry to Irir Samaale...
clan who lived in the coastal area north of Mogadishu
Mogadishu
Mogadishu , popularly known as Xamar, is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries....
in the first decades of the Italian occupation. He was well-known for the masafo, a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men.