Kenyan nationalists dismissed Somali land claims because Somalis were 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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Somali ‘intellectuals’ are usually self-declared, and are literate people with some Western education. Few would concede that their illiterate nomadic cousins might include, as they in fact do, people who are in terms of intellect extremely impressive, and no less original in their ideas than the Eurocentric self-styled ‘intellectuals’. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 927 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: K.A.N.U. dismissed Somali land claims by calling them rootless nomads — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 465; Literate Westernized Somalis dismiss intellectually impressive nonliterate nomads — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 927

Related

• K.A.N.U. dismissed Somali land claims by calling them rootless nomads (similarity 0.94)
• Literate Westernized Somalis dismiss intellectually impressive nonliterate nomads (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• K.A.N.U. dismissed Somali land claims by calling them rootless nomads #corroborates (0.95) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 465
• Literate Westernized Somalis dismiss intellectually impressive nonliterate nomads #exemplifies (0.30) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 927