Colonial authorities expelled an innocent Somali youth to protect Italian racial purity

Evidence

The Italian police commander in Afgoi, Brigadier Ziccardi, gave Osman a sealed envelope and instructed him to deliver the letter to the police commander at Wanle Weyne and to never return to Afgoi. Suspicious of its contents, Osman opened the letter and discovered that the police authority in Wanle Weyne was instructed to keep the young man in that town or send him even farther away. Osman delivered the letter and was ordered not to return to Afgoi, but he was allowed to proceed to Baidao. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 144