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- Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow was a famous Somali poet and warrior mullah from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. Gabyow lived in the coastal area north of Mogadishu in the first few decades of the Italian occupation. He was well known for the , a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men. Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow, also known as Sheekh Gabyow, or just Gabyow or by his full name Sheekh Axmed Abiikar Wacdiyow, recited this poem at the end of February in 1891 that is said to have been the first call for Somali nationalism. We are fighting for the SomalisWe fight those who commit evilOh ye reject colonial infidelsBefore the wind of death takes youTurning to ashes to be eaten by wormsSo rear the path for future generations His son, Mohamed Sciek Gabiou, became a prominent politician as the SYL Minister who designed the Somali constitution of 1960 and became the Ruling Party's parliamentary whip. He was also married to the granddaughter of the great Somali nationalist religious leader Sheikh Hassan Barsane. He would later become a close advisor to President Ali Mahdi. He died in London 2016. (en)
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- Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow was a famous Somali poet and warrior mullah from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. Gabyow lived in the coastal area north of Mogadishu in the first few decades of the Italian occupation. He was well known for the , a genre of Somali poetry that is usually composed by religious men. Sheekh Ahmed Gabyow, also known as Sheekh Gabyow, or just Gabyow or by his full name Sheekh Axmed Abiikar Wacdiyow, recited this poem at the end of February in 1891 that is said to have been the first call for Somali nationalism. (en)
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