Yasin Haji Osman Sharmarke was a Somali

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...

 political figure and activist.

History

Sharmarke was born to a Majerteen Darod

Darod

The Darod is a Somali clan. The father of this clan is named Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, but is more commonly known as Darod. In the Somali language, the word Daarood means "an enclosed compound," a conflation of the two words daar and ood .The Darod population in Somalia lives principally...

 family.

He was the leader of the Somali Youth League

Somali Youth League

The Somali Youth League was the first political party in Somalia. It played a key role in the nation's road to independence during the 1950s and 1960s.-History:...

 (SYL), Somalia

Somalia

Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

's first political party. Having also been instrumental in the organization's creation, Sharmarke and other early SYL nationalists were strongly influenced by the religious rebellion at the turn of the century of Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

Mohammed Abdullah Hassan

Sayyīd Muhammad `Abd Allāh al-Hasan was a Somali religious and patriotic leader...

(the "Mad Mullah").

Shortly after the SYL's establishment in 1943 as the Somali Youth Club (SYC), Sharmarke died.