Just sum up your though on the picture.

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Short but accurate description of Ali ShireKukri wrote:Can you guys tell me what do you think of the picture bellow.?
Just sum up your though on the picture.
of Maxamuud Cali Shire, who was sultan of the Warsangeeli-clan from around 1907 to 1960. Sultan Maxamuud was an ally of the British in fighting (the Derveshes) -..... Therefore he was supplied with firearms and was even recognised in a friendship-treaty as a sovereign entity to which the normal rules of the British protectorate were not applicable. In 1920, when the anti-colonial uprising had been defeated, the Warsangeeli-sultan, who had established himself with the help of the British as a powerful ruler in the northeast of the Protectorate, was perceived as a threat by his former allies. To break his power the British deported him to the Seychelles. On his return eight years later his local power base had shrunk. He continued his rule as a highly respected, but nevertheless clearly subordinate ‘subject’ of Her Majesty, the Queen, who even decorated Sultan Maxamuud with a medal when meeting him in 1954 in Aaden