Society How Northern Frontier District was carved outDespite the uneasy end to the so-called Shifta war, Somalis in Northern Kenya still maintain ties with their kin across the border. Together with the Zanzibar Sultanate’s other former possessions in the area, Jubaland became part of the British East Africa Protectorate. Britain retained control of the southern half of the partitioned Jubaland territory, which was later known as the Northern Frontier District (NFD) and subsequently renamed North Eastern Province. It will be recalled that when the nationalist Harry Thuku was arrested in 1922, he was detained in Kismayo as it was then part of British East Africa. Led by the Northern Province Peoples Progressive Party (NPPPP), Somalis in the NFD vigorously sought union with their kin in the Somali Republic.

Source: The North Africa Journal September 27, 2018 18:22 UTC