Like master Muhammad, a north-east African? (6)
I believe the answer is:
somali
'a north-east african?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'like master muhammad' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'master' could be 'ma' and 'ma' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'soli' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for somali that I've seen before include "1 [GCSE]" , "native language" , "From a country in the Horn of Africa" , "So Liam could be a man from NE Africa" , "Native of East African state" .)