Having been grounded in oral tradition, Somalia adopted the language and the culture of the Arabs and the English, once they took the country by power. And with the advent of colonization, the one tool that the Somalis adopted from the colonizers, which changed the whole historical overture. The little bit of education that was imparted by the Britishers in its colonies had the women excluded from them. Women in the Arabic society of Somalia were meant to do nothing but look after the household and the children.
The women of Somalia are the historical witness to the mass plunder during the war of 1992 and the famine in the same year. Numerous writers and Somali women poets have penned down their experiences of the war. These documents seem to draw a thread between the collective experience of Somali women and the women of Africa as a whole.
Somalia women have recently started breaking the suppressive rules of the society. Somali women have begun campaigning for their own rights and have also joined the politics of Somalia. Somali women have not only restricted their campaigns to the level of human rights but have also played considerable role in the peace keeping of the country. They have also lent a helping hand in the nation-building process of Somalia.
