Somalia+Culture



Somalia Culture

 ** Ethnic Dress: ** **Women in Somalia dress in a hejab, it is a scarf over their head. The men dress in a maawis & gofe.**

**Ethnic Food:**  People in Somalia drink milk from camels, goats, and cows. A dish they like to eat is the camels' humps. They also like to eat durra, honey, dates, rice, tea, and muufo, a bread.

  **Ethnic Art:** Somalia is known as the nation of poets. There are many Somali plays, it was influenced by British and Italian colonists.

Resources : http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Somalia.html http://ethnomed.org//ethnomed/cultures/somali/somali_cp.html Pictures: http://www.hiiraan.org/2005/sept/images/somali_women_voting.jpg http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2005/213/30_clip_image003.jpg [|http://www.muslimvillage.com]