User:Awiisa Hassan

BORN IN THE CITY OF BRAVA SOMALIA 1745 FROM A WELL ESTABLISHED AND WELL RESPECTED FAMILY OF 5 GAMAASI ( SUB CLAN DA'FARAADI, ARWERA ).

CHOSEN BY HIS FATHER SULTAN HASSAN OSMAN TO SUCCEED HIM AS THE CHIEF OF TUNNI BRAVA AND TOORE CLANS, HE WAS THE THIRD OF THE SEVEN MALE BROTHERS ( SHEGO' HASSAN, ABDIO' HASSAN, ALIO' HASSAN, AZANI HASSAN, AND SO FORTH).

SULTAN HADJI AWIISA MASTERED ISLAMIC STUDIES IN ALL ITS ASPECTS SUCH AS MEMORIZING THE HOLLY QUR'AAN, HADITHS, SUNNAH, SHAIIA AND FIQ ALONGSIDE SOMALI TRADITIONS, AS WELL AS TUNNI INTERNAL RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.

HE WAS THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OMANI SULTANATE IN THE COAST REGIONS OF KENYA AND SOMALIA, FROM MOMBASA, LAMU, KIYUNGA, KISMAIO, BRAVA TILL MUUNGHIE CLOSE TO EL AHMED AT MERCA DISTRICT.

SULTAN HADJI AWIISA CROWNED HIS SON FAQI HADJI AWIISA AS HIS SUCCESSOR IN THE THRONE WHO RULED BRAVA TILL 1949 AND WAS ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE ITALIAN KING RE VITTORIO EMAUELE II WITH THE TITLE " CAVAGLIERE OR CAVALLIERE " BECAUSE OF HIS POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ITALIANS IN SOMALIA.

AFTER THE DEATH OF SULTAN FAQI HE WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS SON SULTAN OMAR FAQI WHO HAS LED THE COMMUNITY THROUGH DIFFICULT TIME OF MILITARY REGIME AND CIVIL WARS, THANKS TO ALLAH HE HAS DONE ALL HE COULD TO SAVE HIS CLANS FROM BEING PART OF THOSE WARS, INSTEAD HE CHOSE TO WORK FOR PEACE AND COOPERATION WITH ALL CLANS BY PARTICIPATING ALL SOMALI PEACE AND RECONCILIATION EFFORTS DONE INTERNALLY AND ABROAD SUCH AS THE DJIBOUTI ARTA CONFERENCE, AND THE MBAGATHI PEACE AND RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE IN KENYA. HE PASSED AWAY IN 2008 IN MOGADISHU SOMALIA, BURIED IN BRAVA.

TUNNI SHAN GAMASI, SHAN TORRE, BIIDDA, HATIMI, ARABS AND ASHARAF ARE CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY SULTAN FAQI SAYID SULTAN FAQI HADJI AWIISA, RESIDING IN COLUMBUS OHIO USA AFTER THE CLAN LEADERS AGREEMENT TO APPOINT HIM TO SUCCEED SULTAN OMAR FAQI H. AWIISA.

FOR TESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE TUNNI BRAVA SULTANATE CONTACTS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH VERY PROMINENT BRAVA NOTABLES SUCH AS CHIEF MUNYE QASSIM SHEIKH BIN SHEIKH ONE OF THE MOST SENIOR SOMALI BRAVA ELDERS AND AMONG THE FIRST SOMALI GOVERNORS IN SOMALIA FROM THE AFIS TO THE 1996 MILITARY COUPE OF SOMALIA, HAVE SAID "SULTAN FAQI BIN HADJI AWIISA WAS A STRONG AND WISE SULTAN IN THE EAST AFRICAN REGION, VERY JUST AND GENEROUS, HIS AUTHORITY AND KINGDOM BOARDER WAS FROM MUNGHIA ( GOLWEYN LOWER SHABELLE ) TILL GOOBWEYN KISMAIO LOWER JUBBA.

ASKED ABOUT THE CLAIM OF OTHER SOMALI CLANS IN JILIB, JAMAME AND KISMAIO , HE CLEARLY SAID THAT " OTHER SOMALI CLANS HAD TO ASK FOR AUTHORIZATION FROM THE SULTAN OF ALL THEIR ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE WEDDING OF THEIR DAUGHTERS AND SONS " LEAVE ALONE TALKING ABOUT OTHER ISSUES, BUT NOW EVERY CLAN CAN SAY WHAT THEY WANT BECAUSE OF THE IGNORANCE OF THE SOMALI HISTORY.

ASKED ABOUT OTHER PROOF THE SENIOR SAID YOU CAN UNDERSTAND FROM THE NAMES OF THE VILLAGES AND CITIES SUCH AS JAMAAME, HOOMBOOY, BUULO GADUUD, WUR KOOY, BUULO MASEER, AFMADOW, KULBIYOW , GOOB WEYN ALL THESE NAMES ARE FROM TUNNI LANGUAGE THAT IS PROOF OF THE IDENTITY OF THE OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND, NOT ONLY THOSE YOU CAN FIND DOCUMENTS FROM THE EUROPEAN STATES THAT HAVE COLONISED OR DISCOVERED THE REGION , ITALY, GREAT BRITAIN, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, AND FRANCE , PLUS KINGDOM OF OMAN, INDIA AND SO FORTH.