Abdulcadir Muhammed Aden

Abdulcadir Muhammed Aden (Somali: Cabdulqaadir Maxamed Aadan Zoobe, Arabic: عبدالقادر محمد آدم زوبي‎) was a Somali political figure and activist.

Abdulcadir Muhammed Aden
عبدالقادر محمد آدم زوبي
Born
Somalia
Died2002
OccupationPolitician
TitlePresident Hisbia Digil Mirifle

History

Abdulcadir was born to a Rahanweyn family.[1]

Having joined several independence movements as early as 1940,[2] he was the leading representative and president of the Hisbia Digil Mirifle, Somalia's second largest political party.

Following the formation of the first Somali government in 1956, Zoobe was elected as the first Vice President of the National Assembly, acting as deputy to then President Aden Abdulle Osman.[3] At Independence, he occupied numerous portfolios including Ministry of Finance and Interior.

In 1989, he signed the Manifesto and joined his clansmen in forming the SDM, a paramilitary and political organisation aimed at liberating the Inter riverine region from the Siad Barre regime. Zoobe is credited as an early forerunner of Federalism in Somalia[4] having personally led a campaign since 1950.

References
  1. I. M. Lewis, A pastoral democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, (LIT Verlag Münster: 1999), p.304.
  2. Mohamed Haji, Historical Dictionary of Somalia, (Scarecrow Press: 2003), p.19.
  3. James S. Coleman, Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa, (University of California Press: 1966), p.539.
  4. Abdullahi Abdurahman, Making sense of Somali History, Volume 1, (Adonis and Abbey Publishers Press: 2017), p.123.


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