Ali Duh Gorayo (Somali: Cali Dhuux Gorayo) (died 1962) was a popular poet from Somaliland, who hailed from the city of Buuhoodle, in the Togdheer region in Somaliland, but grew up in the Nugaal region in Somalia and Dollo region in Ethiopia. He mostly wrote about camel husbandry and the issues affiliated with the profession of camel riders. He started a poem called Guba Chain in the 1920s. He was bes known for coining several news Somali words, and was also opposed to emir of dervish king Diiriye Guure, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan during the Darawiish struggle against the British in the early 1900s and wrote many poets to propagate his opposition. Whereas figures such as Dhuh is sometimes credited as a Dhulbahante figure giving an external perspective on colonization efforts whilst ongoing, A