Wardey

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The Wardey are a Somali Dir clan found in southern Somalia (Lower Jubba) and eastern Kenya,^[1] mostly along the Tana River.

The Wardey Ali Madahweyne Dir are a pastoralist community. Mostly they live in Tana River County alongside Orma communities. The tribe has a population of about 246,000 people (2011) in Kenya. They speak the Somali language and practice Islam.

Origins[]

Originally an Oromo clan, they would be assimilated by the invading somalis in the 19th century migrating into parts of modern day kenya taking advantage that the Oromos were struck by a severe epidemic of small pox they would inflict severe damages and casualties pushing them away from their homeland and onto the other side of Tana river^[2]

They faced a widescale displacement by the Ogaden and other Somali clans during their migrations into Wardey heartlands west of the Jubba river in the 19th century.^[3]

Introduction / History

The Wardei are Cushite in descent. They come from Somali and Orma origin. The Somali people took the Orma people as slaves and they eventually lost their language and culture. The Somali people and the Orma people refused them so another tribe called Wardei was born

They live in Garissa and Tana River County in Kenya.

They are Nomadic pastoralists they keep goats, cows and camels. Their houses are huts that can be moved and packed on a camel or donkey. They have recently begun to settle down more in the last few years

The Wardei are predominantly Sunni and Sufi Muslims.

Edited by Wardey Activist Mahatma A Mursal Tana River county kenya.

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y Wardey Activist Mahatma A MURSAL

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