Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate

Evidence

These and other circumstances made it more and more attractive for the British government to pass over the Colonial Secretary’s assurance and to incline towards the position of the Kenyan nationalists. Hence Britain’s line was now to stress that part of her stated policy on Somali unification which held that in the case of the present dispute nothing could be decided without the consent of the government of Kenya. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470

Categorization

• 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 N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession (+7 more)

Related

• British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure (similarity 0.94)
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession (similarity 0.94)
• The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession (similarity 0.93)
• The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports (similarity 0.92)
• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession (similarity 0.90)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence (similarity 0.89)
• Britain’s indecision, not Somali haste, caused the Anglo-Somali rupture (similarity 0.85)
• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland (similarity 0.85)
• British indecision, not Somali haste, caused the diplomatic breach (similarity 0.84)
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics (similarity 0.83)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.82)
• Kenyan parties opposed Somali secession for fear of tribal separatism and with Ethiopian backing (similarity 0.82)
• Britain chose the Ethiopian entente over Somalia’s friendship in 1963 (similarity 0.82)
• Macmillan’s 1960 pledge seemed to promise the NFD self-determination (similarity 0.81)
• Britain abandoned Somali unification because its strategic stakes there were too low (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence #contradicts (0.75) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476
• British indecision, not Somali haste, caused the diplomatic breach #complicates (0.60)
• Britain sacrificed Somali ties to preserve its Ethiopian and Kenyan relations #expands (0.55) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 480
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics #expands (0.50) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 484