Geel nin aan lahayn geeridii war ma leh. The death of a man who does not own camels is no news.
-On Somali Proverbs, Georgi Kapchits, Bildhaan: International Journal of Somali Studies, Vol. XXI
This is not true, for a man who only leads camels, or herds camels, or pastures or waters or milks camels, this man will be in the news for a long time. And if he has appeared in a documentary film televised the night before on the Blue Nile Network, he might be recognized on the streets of his country’s capital, as was KhairAllah when I walked with him in downtown Khartoum and a stranger approached. I know you, the man said to him, You are a Khabīr.