While there is jockeying for control among these clans, the overall effect is for them to sustain one another in power. |
And so all the clans who have totems, those totems define certain territories. |
Since the early 1990s, Somalia has suffered from a civil war between rival clans. |
Even in an age of mobility, families do their best to gather as extended clans, drawn by the call of Christmas. |
For no particular reason I thought it maybe was time for the clans to rally round and attack the sassy Sassenachs south of the border. |
Totems of specific clans, healers, or royal dynasties are taboo to certain members of some ethnic groups. |