Somaliland’s postwar nationalism emerged through the Somaliland National League and Isaqiya associations

Evidence

In this situation, the Somaliland National Society which had emerged immediately before the war, joined with another local association to form the Somaliland National League. Although described in the official records of the time as more conservative than the S.Y.L., this body shared the League’s aim for Somali unification as well as championing the extension of education and the abolition of clan particularism. … Also in existence in this period was the more narrowly based Isaqiya association, concerned almost entirely with the needs and interests of the Isaq clans and particularly active in promoting these in Kenya. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 365

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early Somaliland nationalism sought pan-Somali unification within an Islamic frame. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 316; the MOC “The Nation That Couldn’t Hold: How Somali Clanship, Colonial Partition, and Pan-Somali Dreams Pulled the Seams Apart”

Related

• Early Somaliland nationalism sought pan-Somali unification within an Islamic frame. (similarity 0.92)
• The Somaliland National Society first articulated the aim of uniting all Somalis (similarity 0.87)
• Somaliland’s 1930s political clubs explicitly sought unification of all Somalis (similarity 0.87)
• British wartime unification of Somali regions stoked nationalist spirit (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural nationalism, strengthened by Islam, underpins Somali nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• Shared Islam underpins Somali national consciousness more than any state (similarity 0.82)
• Somalis saw Pan-Somalism as a regional application of Pan-African unity (similarity 0.82)
• Somali cultural nationalism had finally found strong modern political expression. (similarity 0.81)
• The collapse of national solidarity reversed a decade of Somali nationalist unity (similarity 0.81)
• The Somali Youth League united Somalis against Italian colonial divide-and-rule (similarity 0.80)
• Somali nationalism sought nation-to-statehood while other African states built nations from polyglot territories (similarity 0.80)
• Somali nationalism burned out and clan divisions violently reasserted themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Young Somalis founded their political club on their own initiative, not British prompting (similarity 0.80)
• Somali literacy amplified nationalism into a national war obsession (similarity 0.80)
• Somalis framed unification as both Pan-Somali and Pan-African in principle (similarity 0.80)