Darod clans crossed the Juba as clients and allies of the Oromo
Evidence
Their power in this region was thus by no means yet broken; and from time to time their raiding parties menaced the Somali religious centre at Bardera, founded in 1820 on the middle reaches of the Juba. Thus the new Darod invaders encountered a formidable neighbour whom, for the present, it was more expedient to appease than to provoke. Hence having gained their protection, parties of Darod clansmen crossed the river as clients and allies of the Oromo. The trans-Juban Oromo seem to have welcomed this new support and to have turned it to advantage in their relations with the turbulent Akamba and Masai to their west. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 109
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Somali expansion displaced Oromo and Bantu peoples through war — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 81; Somali migrations shaped clan identity through cultural borrowing from Oromo and Bantu; Numerical superiority, not weaponry, drove Somali conquest of Oromo territory (+4 more)
Related
- Somali migrations shaped clan identity through cultural borrowing from Oromo and Bantu (similarity 0.86)
- Somali migrations disestablished the Oromo from northern Somaliland by the twelfth century (similarity 0.84)
- Somali and Oromo share an Ethiopian highland origin from which proto-Somali expanded east (similarity 0.82)
- Somali migrants accepted Oromo protection only until strong enough to overthrow them (similarity 0.80)
- Numerical superiority, not weaponry, drove Somali conquest of Oromo territory (similarity 0.80)
- Somali expansion displaced Oromo and Bantu peoples through war (similarity 0.79)
- Oromo lost all their Somaliland territory north of the Juba by 1700 (similarity 0.79)
- Somali expansion was uncoordinated clan movements, not a single directed conquest (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Somali migrants accepted Oromo protection only until strong enough to overthrow them
#complicates(0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 115