Koyama Is­land.–This is­land is sit­u­ated some 211 miles down the coast from Kismayu, its great­est length be­ing 31 miles, its breadth 2 miles. There are two vil­lages on the is­land, the vil­lage on the shore be­ing known as Koyama or Gedeni, the vil­lage on the hilI a mile or so away, Koya­mani.

The in­hab­i­tants of this is­land be­long to Now­fally ba­juni sub­clan., ma­jor­ity of them are re­li­gious lead­ers (Sheikh). They re­gard them­selves as a dis­tinct tribe, and seem the most fee­ble and dispir­ited of the is­landers. The is­land pos­sesses about four mosques in vary­ing states of re­pair; a ven­er­a­ble ruin gives the date A.H.1224=A.D.1808. Pil­lar Tombs of a more in­tri­cate de­sign than those of other is­lands are to be seen on the fore­shore.

China plates are ce­mented into the mosque walls around the Ki­bla. A cloth slightly dif­fer­ent from that of Be­nadir is stilI made. The promi­nent per­son­al­ity of the is­land are : Nakhoda (cap­tain) Jib­ril ac­tual el­der of the is­land , Sheikh Hisham , Moal­lim Ab­dul­lahi , Sharif Yusuf (Ex Deputy Min­is­ter TNG of So­ma­lia) and Dr. Yusuf Munye.

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