The Himmatwala is the evolution of this class. Unlike the classical poet who composed complex alliterative verse ( gabay , jiifto , geeraar ), the modern Himmatwala is an adaptable narrator. He or she is the person in the village who, after a long day, gathers children around a shaah (tea) fire and begins: "Sheeko waalid sheegay... waxaa jiray waayihii hore..." (An ancestor narrated... long, long ago...).
Post-civil war Somalia is held together by the Maag (a system of compensation and apology). The Himmatwala travels between hostile clans, not with a gun, but with a Buur drum and a story. They tell the story of "The Two Shepherds Who Drank from the Same River." It takes immense himmat to sit in a room where your father's killer sits and ask them to listen to a fable. himmatwala afsomali
Waa dib-u-habayn (remake) uu sameeyay agaasime Sajid Khan, waxaana jilay Ajay Devgn iyo Tamannaah Bhatia . The Himmatwala is the evolution of this class
