The Degoodi or Degodia (, ) is a Somali clan.
They are genealogically related to the other Samaale, but in particular to the Garjante, Gaalje'el, Garre, Masare, Isa (Saransor) and 'Awrmale, with which they share the same ancestor Gardhere Samaale.
History
When Arthur Donaldson Smith traveled through what is now Bare woreda in 1895, he found that the Degodia were neighbors of the Majertein Afgab clan (whom they were at endless war with), their territory stretching east to the
Weyib River and
.
[Donaldson-Smith, Through Unknown African Countries: the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolph (London, 1897), p. 143]
So far there are 12 Wabars who served the community:
1. Wabar Cuudow
2. Wabar Amiin
3. Wabar Ali
4. Wabar Omar
5. Wabar Caalin
6. Wabar Abdi
7. Wabar Omar
8. Wabar Ali
9. Wabar Hassan
10. Wabar Osman
11. Wabar Abdi
12. Wabar Abdille (incumbent)
Clan tree
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology's
Conflict analysis in Bakool and Bay, South-western Somalia
page 32/31
- Samaale
Notable people