Shabelle laborers forced into colonial agriculture fled en masse to their home region

Evidence

Around 1937 or 1938 for political reasons some Ethiopians prisoners and Shabelle laborers supplied by the Sultan Olol Dinle were brought to the agricultural district of Janale. The Ethiopians did not understand the local language, which made fleeing difficult, but the Shabelle laborers fled en masse toward the upper reaches of the Shabelle, where they were from. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1179