The Kenyan NFD held nearly 400,000 people, mostly Somali in its eastern districts.

Evidence

This left the situation in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya to assess. This ethnically and administratively distinct region of Kenya contained a population (according to the 1962 Census) of just under 400,000, considerably more than half of whom were Somali. The ‘District’ in fact comprised six separate administrative Districts with headquarters at Mandera, Wajir, Garissa, Isiolo, Marsabit, and Moyale. Widely dispersed and thinly concentrated on the ground, the Somali pastoral nomads occupied almost the whole of the eastern part of the region (Garissa, Wajir, and Mandera Districts), being cordoned off from their neighbours and ethnic kinsmen the Orma and Boran Galla by the ‘Somali line’, which ran southwards from east of Moyale to the Tana River. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 459

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The NFD’s eastern half was Somali while western areas were ethnically mixed; Nationalist activity in the Kenyan NFD stayed dormant from 1948 until 1960. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 460

Related

• The NFD’s eastern half was Somali while western areas were ethnically mixed (similarity 0.92)
• Nationalist activity in the Kenyan NFD stayed dormant from 1948 until 1960. (similarity 0.83)
• N.F.D. Somalis comprised 62 percent and nearly unanimously backed secession (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Nationalist activity in the Kenyan NFD stayed dormant from 1948 until 1960. #complicates (0.35) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 460