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Though he won the Croix de guerre fighting for the French in World War II, 37-year-old Mahmoud Harbi is now a fervid admirer of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose radio propaganda urges the Somalis to rise up and expel their colonial masters. Harbi is Somali-land's only Deputy to the French National Assembly, but he campaigned vigorously for a non vote. He dreams of the day when Somalia (a U.N. trusteeship administered by Italy but slated for independence in 1960) and British Somaliland, a protectorate that is also moving toward independence, will join...
...when it would become a free Somalia. As a matter of national pride, the Italians took seriously the job of sprucing up Somaliland. They repaired the war damage, started port developments and irrigation programs, built new hospitals and dispensaries, and tripled the number of native schools (though only one Somali in 100 can read and write). Somali tribesmen, mindful of their hatred of the Mussolini colonial era, at first conducted a war of terrorism against the territory's Italians, killing more Europeans than were slain in Kenya's Mau Mau revolt. But tribesmen have been won over...
Abdullah wears European suits and Somali headdress, and is a man in transition like his country. "I was born in the wilds," said he. "My parents were nomads and my birth was never registered. I think I am 38 but of course I am not certain...
...British lieutenant told how Griffiths made one of his prisoners take off his pants. Then, the witness testified, Griffiths handed his knife to an African private and commanded: "Castrate him." The private, a 16-year-old Somali named Ali Segat, did not obey, so Griffiths changed his order: "Cut off his ear!" With a quick slice, Segat complied
First, the Mau Mau overran a Somali outpost on the estate. They cut off the head of a Somali cattle herdsman, presumably to terrorize the Somali tribesmen who are trickling south to help the British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...