Somali nomads settled northeastern Kenya well before colonial borders were drawn

Evidence

The son of Somali nomads living in the badlands of northeastern Kenya, Mohamed’s ancestors stopped there in the early 1900s, long before modern borders were drawn and new nations were created, when the only boundaries that mattered were the very lines and cracks in the sand that would trap Mohamed. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 102

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to colonial border-drawing dynamics resonant with the global anti-Muslim ‘crusade’ framing of the book and comparable settler-colonial boundary histories.