Somali nationalism

Statue of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan in Mogadishu, Somalia. He was the leader of the Dervish State and a Somali nationalist.

Somali nationalism is centered on the notion that the Somali people share a common language, religion, culture and ethnicity, and as such constitute a nation unto themselves. The ideology's earliest manifestations are often traced back to the resistance movement led by Mohamed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State at the turn of the 20th century.^[1] In northwestern present-day Somalia, the first Somali nationalist political organization to be formed was the Somali National League (SNL), established in 1935 in the former British Somaliland protectorate. In the country's northeastern, central and southern regions, the similarly-oriented Somali Youth Club (SYC) was founded in 1943 in Italian Somaliland, just prior to the trusteeship period. The SYC would later be renamed the Somali Youth League (SYL) in 1947. It would go on to become the most influential political party in the early years of post-independence Somalia.^[2]

References

↑ Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi. Culture and Customs of Somalia. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 2001. p. 24.
↑ Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi. Culture and Customs of Somalia. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 2001. p. 25.

Nationalism

Africa	Acholi Afrikaner Algerian Arab Berber Canarian Egyptian Ethiopian Libyan Nigerian Sahrawi Somali Tunisian Ugandan

Asia	Arab Armenian Assamese Assyrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Baloch Bangladeshi Bengali Bodo Chinese Circassian Dalit East Turkestani Filipino Gorkha Hindu Indian Iranian Iraqi Japanese Jewish Kashmiri Korean Kurdish Lebanese Lezgian Malay Manchurian Marathi Mongolian Naga Pakistani Palestinian Ryukyu Saraiki Sikh Sindhi Sinhalese Buddhist South Asian Muslim Sri Lankan Tamil Syrian Taiwanese Tamil Tibetan Tripuri Turkic Turkish

Europe	Albanian Andalusian Armenian Asturian Austrian Azerbaijani Balkar and Karachay Basque Bavarian Bosnian Breton British Canarian Castilian Catalan Celtic Circassian Cornish Corsican Croatian Czechoslovak English Estonian Faroese Flemish Finnish French Galician German (in Austria) Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Lezgian Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Occitan Padanian Polish Prussian Rhenish Romanian Russian Sardinian Scottish Serbian Sicilian Slavic Slovenian Spanish Swabian Turkic Turkish Ukrainian Ulster Valencian Venetian Walloon Welsh Yugoslav

North America	American Canadian Chicano Greenlandic Québécois

South America	Argentine Brazilian

Oceania	Hawaiian Māori NZ South Islander

Other	Black Islamic White

Note: Forms of nationalism based primarily on ethnic groups are listed above. This does not imply that all nationalists with a given ethnicity subscribe to that form of ethnic nationalism.

Somali nationalism

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