Interesting debate on the NFD 1963

[ArcadeFire]

House of Lords...
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lord ... t-of-kenya

[kadarre]

The idea of a Greater Somalia has been put forward by four eminent people at various times. First, there was Sir Charles Elliot, one of our greatest administrators in Kenya, about 1904. Then there was Mohammed Abdilla Hassan, commonly known as "The Mad Mullah", between 1899 and 1920. He is one of the greatest of the Somali poets. Then, the idea has been put forward by the Emperor of Ethiopia on a number of occasions, always with the intention of incorporating the entire Horn of Africa within the Ethiopian Empire. Finally, there was Mr. Ernest Bevin in 1946, and what he said is on record in Hansard. This idea, therefore, is not new.

[Voltage]

Somalis read all these reports. They are everywhere. They are intelligent people. There are 20,000 in Aden, and 1,500 or so in this country. They take a part in civilised life, and they know exactly what is going on. They have read all these things and the man in the street—or, in this case, in the desert—listening on his transistor set knows what it is all about.

[Cirwaaq]

It is one of the poorest places that people have ever quarrelled about. There is the possibility of oil but I am certain that the quarrel is not about oil, in the sense that if there were no prospects of oil the quarrel would be there.

Mr Mburu’s work showed that a 81,000 sq km area between Marsabit and the Kenya Somalia border could have as much as 1.8 billion barrels of oil in one section (Kenya consumes 80,000 barrels a day).
http://www.jamiiforums.com/internationa ... overy.html

[Oxidant]

Then, the idea has been put forward by the Emperor of Ethiopia on a number of occasions, always with the intention of incorporating the entire Horn of Africa within the Ethiopian Empire.

Honestly, this Union would have made sense, but Ethiopian kings did Muslims many wrongs when in power