President Adan cited ethnic heterogeneity as justification for African single-party states

Evidence

Referring to democratic practice in the Republic on that occasion, President Adan said he regretted that many other African states, ‘because of the intolerances that are inevitable among a heterogeneous populace’ had had to resort, for the sake of cohesion to a single-party system of government. ‘Others forbid politics altogether’, he added. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 859