Entangled histories of (unfinished) colonial occupation: Somali resistance and the making of an imperial frontier in Jubaland, c.1890-1918

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Anna Bruzzone (SOAS University of London)

Somalis gained a reputation for resistance in British East Africa. Although more pacification campaigns were conducted against them than against any other people in the East Africa Protectorate [EAP], this history remains largely unexplored. Finally ceded to the Italians in 1925, Jubaland is the forgotten province of the EAP. This paper sheds light on Somali resistance to British rule in Jubaland, focusing on successive phases of armed resistance in the Herti uprising of 1893, the Ogaden rebellions of 1898 and 1901, Marehan unrest in 1913, and the Aulihan uprising of 1916. But even this nomenclature is problematic, because it reflects the assumptions, perceptions, and concerns of colonial administrators. This paper critically challenges the conventional colonial presentation of these events, showing the origins of Somali resistance and explaining the forms it took.

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