|
Somalia Consolidation of Colonial
Rule
The two decades between 1900 and 1920 were
a period of colonial consolidation. However,
of the colonial powers that had divided the
Somalis, only Italy developed a comprehensive
administrative plan for its colony
Read more
|
|
SOMALIA IMPERIAL PARTITION The last quarter of the nineteenth
century saw political developments that transformed the Somali
Peninsula. During this period, the Somalis became the subjects of
state systems under the flags of Britain, France, Italy, Egypt, and
Ethiopia Read more
|
|
Somalia - History Somalia was formed by
a merger of two former colonial territories:
British Somaliland, in the north, and its larger
and more populous neighbour, Italian Somaliland.
Read more
|
|
Somalia - BREAKDOWN
The Somali environment--both human and
ecological--has deteriorated since the collapse of
the state in early 1991.Read
more
|
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY REGIME
The military coup that ended the democratic
regime retroactively defined its action as a Marxist revolution not
only instituting a new political order but also proposing the
radical transformation of Somali society through the application of
Read
more |
|
Mahammad Abdille Hasau's
Dervish Resistance to Colonial Occupation
Given the frequency and virulence of the
Ethiopian raids, it was natural that the first pan-Somali or
Greater Somalia effort against colonial occupation, and for
unification of all areas populated by Somalis into one country
Read
more |
|
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO REVOLUTION
During the nine-year period of parliamentary democracy that
followed Somali independence, freedom of expression was widely
regarded as being derived from the traditional right of every man
to be heard.
Read
more |
|
Somalia During World War
II Italy's 1935 attack
on Ethiopia led to a temporary Somali reunification. After Italian
premier Benito Mussolini's armies marched into Ethiopia and toppled
Emperor Haile Selassie, the Italians seized British Somaliland
Read
more |
|
Creation of the Somali
Revolutionary Socialist Party
One of the SRC's first acts
was to prohibit the existence of any political association. Under
Soviet pressure to create a communist party structure to replace
Somalia's military regime, Siad Barre had announced as early as
1971 the SRC's intention to establish a one-party state.
Read more |
|
The Majeerteen Sultanates
Farther east on the
Majeerteen (Bari) coast, by the middle of the nineteenth century
two tiny kingdoms emerged that would play a significant political
role on the Somali Peninsula prior to colonization. These were the
Majeerteen Sultanate of Boqor Ismaan Mahamuud, and that of his
kinsman Sultan Yuusuf Ali Keenadiid of Hobyo (Obbia).
Read more |
 Somali
Peninsula on the Eve of Imperial Partition
In 1728 the last Portuguese foothold on
the East African coast was dislodged from the great Mombasa castle
of Fort Jesus. From then until the European "scramble" for African
colonies in the 1880s, the Omanis exercised a shadowy authority
over the Banaadir coast.
Read more |
|
SOMALIS: THEIR ORIGINS,
MIGRATIONS, AND SETTLEMENT
A paucity of written historical evidence forces
the student of early Somalia to depend on the findings of
archeology, anthropology, historical linguistics, and related
disciplines. Read
more |
|
Ibn Battuta in Mogadishu
Ibn Battuta sails along the east coast of Africa
pp. 110-112 Read
more |
|
Arab conquerors
Read more |
|
British colonisation
Read more |
Contact us at: