The SYL congress deposed its radical president for refusing party discipline

Evidence

Shortly after deliberations began members of the assembly endeavored to introduce electoral redistricting, which had been resolved in an earlier period. Haji Mohamed was incensed by this attempt and walked out of the meetings. He organized a demonstration against the party and said that the party had ceased to be a liberation movement and that Somali nationalists should spill blood for independence rather than accept independence sanctioned by the colonialists. Conference participants were enraged by this behavior and recognized that the party could not survive if its president behaved so cavalierly. Accordingly, the matter was debated on the same day, and conferees decided to remove Haji Mohamed from the presidency and revoke his membership in the CC, but they gave him the opportunity to appeal their decision. Haji Mohamed ignored the disciplinary measures imposed on him and took his seat at the head table in the congress hall the following morning as if he were still the SYL’s president. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 356

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did Haji Mohamed Hussein’s Egyptian radicalism differ from the SYL’s gradualist path, and what became of him after 1958?