Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession

Evidence

This was that evidence had been collected ‘on the premise that there can be no question of secession before Kenya gets independence’. This assumption derived, apparently, from the Commissioners’ confidential instructions. It was not included in the previous Colonial Secretary’s announcement of the decision to set up the Commission made at the Kenya conference, and it appeared to be in conflict with the undertaking given then that a decision would be taken before Kenya became independent. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The N.F.D. delegation was led by Mr A. R. Khalif. He asked that: ‘before any further constitutional changes affecting Kenya were made, autonomy should be granted to the area which they represented as a territory wholly independent of Kenya, in order that it might join in an Act of Union with the Somali Republic when Kenya became fully independent’. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 463 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports; British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure; The shifta guerrilla war in northern Kenya failed at great civilian cost. (+6 more)

Related

• The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession (similarity 0.94)
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession (similarity 0.92)
• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate (similarity 0.90)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence (similarity 0.90)
• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland (similarity 0.90)
• British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure (similarity 0.89)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.88)
• N.F.D. Somalis comprised 62 percent and nearly unanimously backed secession (similarity 0.87)
• The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports (similarity 0.86)
• Kenyan parties opposed Somali secession for fear of tribal separatism and with Ethiopian backing (similarity 0.85)
• Macmillan’s 1960 pledge seemed to promise the NFD self-determination (similarity 0.82)
• The NFD’s eastern half was Somali while western areas were ethnically mixed (similarity 0.82)
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics (similarity 0.80)
• Britain’s indecision, not Somali haste, caused the Anglo-Somali rupture (similarity 0.79)
• The shifta guerrilla war in northern Kenya failed at great civilian cost. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence #corroborates (0.80) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476
• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate #contradicts (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession #expands (0.60)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic #expands (0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 463
• Colonial Kenya restricted northern Somali movement almost as strictly as South African apartheid #complicates (0.30) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 851