The 1897 partition directly set the stage for the 23-year holy war

Evidence

Nevertheless, for the time being at least, France, Britain, and Italy, had now pruned their Somali possessions to dimensions acceptable to Ethiopia, and the stage was set for the march of local events. For the next twenty-three years these were dominated by the religious war against the Christian ‘infidels’ led by Sheikh Muhammad ‘Abdille Hassan in which Somali, who for the most part had so far seemed to accept those new imperial developments of which they had knowledge, fiercely strove to regain their lost independence. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 195

Categorization

• XREF: Peak of the chapter’s arc - links the imperial partition clauses to the religious resistance climax Lewis narrates next.