Echoes: When government went to war with secessionists
THE STANDARD NATIONAL Corporal Ibrahim Dahim instructing the Somali Doubas in aiming, May 1964 [Courtesy] Combatants go to war to win. This is a mantra proponents of secession in the Northern Frontier District (NFD) had in mind when they attempted to secede from Kenya. But they were mistaken besides underestimating the ability of a Kenya that had just gained self-rule from British colonists. The secessionists might have thought it was easy to break away at a time the young nation was finding her bearing. They believed their interests would be better safeguarded in neighbouring Somalia than K...
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