The N.F.D. commission was secretly instructed to rule out pre-independence secession

Evidence

This was that evidence had been collected ‘on the premise that there can be no question of secession before Kenya gets independence’. This assumption derived, apparently, from the Commissioners’ confidential instructions. It was not included in the previous Colonial Secretary’s announcement of the decision to set up the Commission made at the Kenya conference, and it appeared to be in conflict with the undertaking given then that a decision would be taken before Kenya became independent. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

These and other circumstances made it more and more attractive for the British government to pass over the Colonial Secretary’s assurance and to incline towards the position of the Kenyan nationalists. Hence Britain’s line was now to stress that part of her stated policy on Somali unification which held that in the case of the present dispute nothing could be decided without the consent of the government of Kenya. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports; British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure; Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476 (+3 more)

Related

• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession (similarity 0.94)
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession (similarity 0.94)
• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate (similarity 0.93)
• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence (similarity 0.92)
• British reversal on the N.F.D. stemmed from Anglo-Ethiopian relations and Kenyan pressure (similarity 0.88)
• The Britain-Somalia rupture could have been avoided had London heeded N.F.D. reports (similarity 0.86)
• The NFD demanded the same self-determination Britain granted British Somaliland (similarity 0.85)
• Macmillan’s 1960 pledge seemed to promise the NFD self-determination (similarity 0.84)
• N.F.D. Somalis sought autonomy from Kenya to unite with the Somali Republic (similarity 0.82)
• Kenyan parties opposed Somali secession for fear of tribal separatism and with Ethiopian backing (similarity 0.82)
• N.F.D. Somalis comprised 62 percent and nearly unanimously backed secession (similarity 0.80)
• The NFD’s eastern half was Somali while western areas were ethnically mixed (similarity 0.80)
• The N.F.D. fixation left Somalia isolated in Pan-African politics (similarity 0.79)
• Britain’s indecision, not Somali haste, caused the Anglo-Somali rupture (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Britain secretly precluded NFD secession before Kenya’s independence #corroborates (0.95) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 476
• Britain placed the N.F.D. into Kenya’s regional constitution, rejecting secession #corroborates (0.70)
• Britain shifted to insisting Kenyan consent governed the N.F.D.’s fate #expands (0.65) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 470
• Pan-African opinion legitimized Britain’s refusal of N.F.D. secession #expands (0.60)