The Isaak,Dulbahanto(Herti)in Colonial Kenya

[MzeeSiraj]

I wish to tell the untold Story of the people of Somaliland in the history of Colonial Kenya from 1900 to 1963.There are few pictures but a big data
to support the narrative.The following are the main topics.
1.Somalis stock traders and European settlers.
2.The agitation for Asiatic rights by the Somalis.
3.The Isaak and Darod associations.
4.Somalis from Somaliland mentioned in the colonial records.
5.The decline of the Somali star in Isiolo, Northern Kenya.
Persons or institutions interested in this history can contact me on email sirajiabdi2003@gmail.com.

[X.Playa]

Where do you live?

[MzeeSiraj]

Where do I live?Of course in Kenya.

[MzeeSiraj]

The untold story of Somalis and European Settlers in Colonial Laikipia 1900-1930

” Khalif Hussein was an old hunter of mine in the early days in Somaliland.He accompanied me when I came overland to
this country(Kenya).He visited me some years later bringing eight Somali pony mares as a present.Later still, owing to being
a loyalist in Northern Somaliland, he lost most of his stock, and the old man who was then blind, got on a mule with one of
his sons to lead it and come down from Northern Somaliland overland to my farm.I gave him a few cows and a pension, and
allowed him to live on my land for his life which cannot be very long”.

The above is a quote from a letter by Lord Delamare dated 19th August 1925 Loresho Kabete, Kenya colony.It was addressed
to the acting Colonial Secretary, Secretariat Nairobi, in regards to the removal of Somali stock traders from Laikipia, Kenya.

[MzeeSiraj]

In 1910 the colonial District Commissioner in his yearly report writes that the chief trade of Laikipia District was sheep and cattle trading.Somalis brought up cattle to exchange with sheep which was then exported from the District.The records show a Somali Stock trader and General Merchant dealer at Gilgilstation, Mohamed Farah, writing an application in 1915 to the Provincial Commissioner, Kismanyu Jubaland, to trade there.The sheep exported that year was 12,397.The Sheep were also sold in Nyeri and Gilgil after being dipped at Rumuruti.In April 1921 there was 10,000 head of cattle in the District most Somali-owned.They brought these cattle from the Northern Frontier District and sold them at the Gilgil and Naivasha sale yard.The Somalis were an asset to the trading community in the District.Prices for the livestock sold during the year were as follows.Native cows ks.70-100/-, Bullocks ks 35-70/-, and native sheep ks 12-24/-.Somali-owned cattle numbering 4,4461 were inoculated for pleuro-pneumonia in November 1922.There was a very strong desire among the Somalis to settle in Laikipia permanently as farmers and they were willing to pay any reasonable rate for grazing. Somalis and their cattle had reached “El Dorado”, but were soon to find that Laikipia District was only for the European farmer-Settler.

[X.Playa]

Do any photographic records exist of lord delmere expedition from Somaliland to kenya. He was accompanied by thousands of Somalis from Hargaysa region among them the poet warrior Huseen Hassan and his guide Abdulahi Aashur and many others.

[OmarMahamoud]

Isaaq were british slaves. Nothing more in the colonial area.

[X.Playa]

Isaaq were british slaves. Nothing more in the colonial area.

You were British, Italian and even Ethiopian slave. You shouldn't talk shit when your daarood booty is shared three ways.

[OmarMahamoud]

Isaaq were british slaves. Nothing more in the colonial area.

You were British, Italian and even Ethiopian slave. You shouldn't talk shit when your daarood booty is shared three ways.

Lets be honest now Isaaq were the slaves to foreign powers, around the time Daroods Dervish warriors were fighting against the british under the Sayyid Abdallah Hassan, Isaaqs were put in human zoos in europe for all cadaans to see. Isaaqs are the only somalis that were compared to animals locked in a cage like they're bantus



Just telling the truth you were slaves.

[X.Playa]

Interesting so tell me what evidence your daarood have as evidence that the Somalis in so called human zoos were isaaq?

As far as I know the most famous of them all mullah Maxamed Nur whom his biography was written by Maria van tilling as a ph.d dissertation was a Daarood.

Daarood talk shit and hate but it backfires.

[OmarMahamoud]

Interesting so tell me what evidence your daarood have as evidence that the Somalis in so called human zoos were isaaq?

As far as I know the most famous of them all mullah Maxamed Nur whom his biography was written by Maria van tilling as a ph.d dissertation was a Daarood.

Daarood talk shit and hate but it backfires.

lmao look at this iidoor trying to spin it as if Daroods who were fighting colonial powers in north east were somehow also taken to zoos from the north west? The people they took to zoos were from Isaaq deegans of Britsh Somaliland. If you're gonna make up lies at least make it believable.

At the end of the day we all know the truth. Majority of the people in British Somaliland were living in areas today populated by isaaqs. All the images of the somalis in human zoos on the internet are all isaaq people majority habar awal.

Lmao slaves deep down you know it too

[MzeeSiraj]

The Isaaks were not British slaves but true representatives of the Somali Nation(tribes) in colonial Kenya.

[MzeeSiraj]

Do any photographic records exist of lord delmere expedition from Somaliland to kenya. He was accompanied by thousands of Somalis from Hargaysa region among them the poet warrior Huseen Hassan and his guide Abdulahi Aashur and many others.

Yes there are few photos but many documents and letters on the Somalis involved in this story.

[MzeeSiraj]

European farmers commenced agitating against the Somalis when they woke up to the fact that many apeared to be obtaining a permanent footing in the District, and were engaged not so much in legitimate trade as breeding stock in competition to themselves.The Laikipia District Committee made up of European farmers-Settlers were in favour of drastic measures for the removal of Somalis from the District.“Kaffir” farming was undesirable to them and moreover to in opposition to the wishes of the residents.No instructions were received from Government, because these Somalis were neither Asiatic or Native Kenyans but British Citizens of Somaliland brought to East Africa to fight for King and Crown during the First World War.After the war ended, they were demobilised and allowed by the British Government to trade in the East African colonies of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. They were issued with travel documents, carried licenced firearms and allowed to bring over their wives from British Somaliland.Legally they were servants of the British Empire like the Asiatics.

[MzeeSiraj]

By the end of 1927, there were few resident Somalis in Laikipia.Two or three occupy or work in shops.The majority of Somalis moved to Nairobi and Isiolo District, where they started agitating for their rights in colonial Kenya.Initially, it was The Daru Somali Community which presented a memorandum in 1927 to the Hilton Young Commission which was set up by the British Government to gather the views of the different communities especially on land issues in the Kenya colony.The views presented were genuine grievances by the Somali community in Colonial Kenya.The memorandum was presented by: BIILA ISA, WARSAMA HIRSI, MAALAM MOHAMED, an ADAM JAMA.This unified front was replaced with first the British Ishak community/Association and the Darod Somali Welfare Association which was registered on the 12th April 1938.The colonial administration was playing the old divide and rule game, pitting the majority Isaack against the Darod.It is very important to understand the aims of these Somal groups and the colonial records will help us.The story of Isaak and Darod associations will be continued.