Macmillan’s 1960 pledge seemed to promise the NFD self-determination

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland; Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476

Related

• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence (similarity 0.89)
• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland (similarity 0.89)
• The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession (similarity 0.84)
• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession (similarity 0.82)
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession (similarity 0.81)
• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate (similarity 0.81)
• The NFD’s eastern half was Somali while western areas were ethnically mixed (similarity 0.80)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland #expands (0.60)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence #contradicts (0.50) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476