Rer Bare people
The Rer Bare or Rer Barre ( the Somali word reer means "people of ", "child of", "tribe" ) are a sedentary - rural minority group at around Kalafo in the Somali region in eastern Ethiopia River Shabelle is established.
They include ( " hard hairy " or " curly haired " ) or as to a number of ethnic minorities in inhabited by Somali territory in the Horn of Africa, which are distinguished by darker skin and krauseres hair from the Somali majority of the Somali as Jarir Adone or Adona (of addoon, " slave" ) are referred to.
Ethnicity and language
Today they speak Somali. It is unclear whether they previously had their own language; in the Ethnologue is " Rer Bare " listed as unclassified extinct language with ISO 639-3 code rer. The origin of the Rer Bare is also not released. You could be descended from the slaves of the Somali, but also be an indigenous population that has lived before the Somali in that area.
For similar " Negroid " agriculture be operated minority groups in Somalia since the early 1990s, the term " Somali Bantu " Come up, starting from those groups in the Jubba Valley, clearly descended from Bantu, in the 19th century as slaves from other parts of East Africa were taken to the Somali region. The name was extended to groups, possibly (partly) descended from a pre- Somali population, which perhaps originally spoke Bantu languages. The Rer Bare were referred by analogy, as " Ethiopian Bantu ". Tobias Hagmann mentions it as " Somali Bantu ized ". Ulrich Braukamper writes of the Adone at Shabelle that they " [ are ] who settled there since the 19th century and spread obviously the descendants of Bantu slaves."
Probably the first scientific description of a possible language Rer Bare or " Rerebere " can be found in 1975 at Lionel Bender. This then had rather suspected a connection to language groups in Sudan, in particular for Nilo-Saharan language family:
Adone groups living in Ethiopia and further upstream on the Shabelle in the border area between the Somali and Oromo, where they are called by the Oromo Warra Dubba, ( also written as Dube or Wara Dubie ) and at Weyb in Afder zone. Another group are the Garri Maro (or Gherrimero ) on Ganale and other rivers in the Liben Zone in the south of the Somali region.
Society and politics
The Rer Bare are members of the Somali clan of the Hawiye and live together with sedentary Hawiye and other Somali in villages in the Woreda Kalafo in the Gode zone. Your livelihood is agriculture, most important crops include sorghum and maize. In addition, in these villages also cowpea and sesame seeds, and vegetables are grown, which serve both to diversification of the diet as well as to sell for money. To supply with milk, many farmers also keep one to three cows.
The allied Hawiye and Rer Bare divided into subgroups that are mythological two forefathers, Badbedan and Kunle returned:
- Badbedan Ali Mad
- Dagine
- Rer Gedow
- Bajimal
- Rer Ise
- GASAR.
Ali Mad and Dagine consist almost exclusively of Rer Bare, while the other groups are mixed. The Rer Gedow, Rer Ise and GASAR include many Hawiye - especially Ajuran -, while under the Bajimal are also a number of you.
The Rer Bare are deemed to be secondary to the dominant Hawiye. The two groups characterize their relationship as bah iyo Boqor, which translates as "subjects and kings " means. Although they live together and share common ancestors postulate, there is little intermarriage.
In 1992, in addition to several other parties of individual clans also a political party of the Rer Bare in the Somali region. This party joined in 1994 with the other parties to the Ethiopian Somali Democratic League together, which in turn came up in 1998 in the Somali People's Democratic Party. 2004, a new Rer Bare Party was founded with the name Dilwabi to compete in the elections of 2005. This party also takes part in the 2010 elections.