A lesser hunter-gatherer people predated Hamitic rule in the southern Horn.
Evidence
The second component of this pre-Hamitic population, apparently much less numerous than the riverine cultivators, was a hunting and fishing people living a precarious nomadic existence. Their present-day descendants, much affected by Hamitic influence, survive in a few scattered groups in Jubaland and in the south of the Republic where they are generally known as Ribi (or Wa-Ribi) and as Boni (or Wa-Boni). — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 83
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Pre-Hamitic Zanj Bantu cultivators once dominated the fertile interriverine south. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 82