Ibrahim Ismaa'il

Ibrahim Ismaa'il was born around 1900 in the east of the British protectorate of Somaliland. After a youth of makeshift livings in Aden, he earned his living on ships, then landed in Britain in 1919 and settled in Cardiff, where he attended a small mosque. There he met the Belgian anthropologist Eugène Gaspard-Marin, an anarchist, whose friend he remained for two decades and who received him in the libertarian colony of Whiteway, where a photograph of 1922 shows him among the colonists. In Britain, he went by the name of Saalah Abdullah.

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• NarrativeThe Life and Adventures of a SomaliIbrahim Ismaa'il · 1928Literature