Ali Dhuh
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Ali Duh Gorayo (Somali: Cali Dhuux Gorayo) (died 1962) was a popular poet from Somalia, who hailed from the city of Buuhoodle, in the Togdheer, Somalia but grew up in the Nugaal region now Sool (las-Anod) and Dollo region in Ethiopia. He mostly wrote about camel husbandry and the issues affiliated with the profession of camel riders.[1]
He hails from the Bah Cali Gheri clan and he started a poem called Guba Chain in the 1920s.[2] He was bes known for coining several news Somali words,[3] and was also opposed to emir of dervish king Diiriye Guure, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan during the Darawiish struggle against the British in the early 1900s and wrote many poets to propagate his opposition.[4] Whereas figures such as Dhuh is sometimes credited as a Dhulbahante figure giving an external perspective on colonization efforts whilst ongoing, Aadan Carab is often credited for an external perspective from the perspective of hindsight or retrospect, such as highlighting a Dhulbahante genocide at the hands of European colonialists during the Darawiish era.[5]
