K.A.N.U. dismissed Somali land claims by calling them rootless nomads
Evidence
In reply, the K.A.N.U. delegation asked why those non-Somali tribesmen of the N.F.D. who might not wish to leave Kenya should be sacrificed to the Somali demand for secession. The solution to this problem, they claimed, was simple. Let those Somalis who desired it, leave Kenya and join the Somali Republic: no one would stop them. The fact that the Somalis found their livelihood in the District was not important, for they were nomads: and in any case in the K.A.N.U. view they possessed only a slender claim to the territory. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 465
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Kenyan nationalists dismissed Somali land claims because Somalis were nomads