Ogaden (clan)

The Ogaden (Somali: Ogaadeen, Arabic: أوغادين‎) is a Somali clan part of the Darod.[2][3][4]

This article is about the ethnic group. For the geographical area, see Ogaden.
Ogaden
Total population
697,566 (Kenya)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Languages
Somali
Religion
Islam (Predominantly Sunni, Sufism)
Related ethnic groups
Jidwaq, Absame, Marehan, other Darod family clan, and other Somali clans

Overview
Ogaden ruler Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, leader of the Dervish movement.

Members of the Ogaden clan primarily live in the central Ogaden plateau of Ethiopia (Somali Region),[5] the North Eastern Province of Kenya, and the Jubaland region of Southern Somalia.

According to Human Rights Watch, the Ogaden is the largest Darod clan in Ethiopia's Somali Region, and may account for 70 to 80 percent of the Somali population in Ethiopia.[6] The Ogaden clan "constitutes the backbone of the ONLF".[7] In particular, the ONLF operates in Ogaden areas[8]

Frank Linsly James, one of the first Europeans to travel deep into Ogaden territory while being accompanied by Lord Philips and armed with Martini-Enfield rifles, describes his first encounter with Ogadens in 1884.

After marching for six hours, we were joined by two Ogadayn natives, who said they would show us the wells, which were close at hand. They pointed to our guns and asked their use. When we said, "for killing men and beasts," they laughed, and replied " they would be no use against sticks, let alone swords and spears." A Hornbill was sitting on a tree listening to this conversation, and echoed the natives' laugh with an assenting croak of scorn. Lord Phillips raised his despised firearm, and down fell the lifeless hornbill. Down, too, fell the Ogadayn natives, and remained for some time with their faces pressed against the ground, invoking the protection of the great Allah. [9]

ONLF separatist rebels fighting for the right to self-determination for Somalis in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.
Traditional territory inhabited by the various Somali clans shown[10]

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Notable persons

References
  1. "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Volume IV: Distribution of Population by Socio-Economic Characteristics". Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  2. "Somalia: Minorities and indigenous peoples". Minority Rights Group International. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  3. Lewis, Ioan M (1999). A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa. James Currey Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 9780852552803. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  4. Lewis, Ioan M (July 1959). "Clanship and Contract in Northern Somaliland". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 29 (3): 274. doi:10.2307/1157617. JSTOR 1157617. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  5. "Collective Punishment", p. 14
  6. "Collective Punishment", p. 13
  7. "Collective Punishment", p. 4
  8. "Collective Punishment", p. 27
  9. The Unknown Horn of Africa: An Exploration From Berbera to the Leopard River, By Frank Linsly james, p.104
  10. "Somalia Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online". Retrieved September 21, 2019.
  11. "Brief history – Ministry of Justice and Judiciary Affairs : Federal Government of Somalia". Retrieved 2019-08-23.
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