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THE UNACCOUNTABLE CENSUS: COLONIAL ENUMERATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOMALI PEOPLE OF KENYA*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2015

KEREN WEITZBERG
KEREN WEITZBERG*
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University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

In 2010, the Kenyan government annulled national census results due to concerns that Somalis in the country had been over-counted. This article traces the genesis of this recent demographic dispute, which held important implications for the distribution of political power. It shows that African leaders inherited long-standing practices laid down by the colonial state, which was unable to obtain a reliable count of the number of people in Kenya or render its Somali subjects into a countable, traceable population. In regions where expansive Somali networks had long predated British rule, colonial authorities only loosely enforced the concept of a permanent population. By yielding to this reality, colonial officials developed governance techniques that should not be mistakenly portrayed as state ‘failures’. These policies call into question the applicability of James C. Scott's concept of ‘legibility’ to Kenya. They also suggest that recent demographic controversies cannot be reductively blamed on ‘illegal’ immigration.

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KenyaSomaliademographypastoralismnomadismmigrationstate

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The Limits of Power over People in the Horn of Africa
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The Journal of African History , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 2015 , pp. 409 - 428
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Footnotes

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I would like to extend my gratitude to Richard Ambani and the rest of the staff at the Kenya National Archives as well as Hassan Kochore, Hassan Ibrahim, Abdi Billow Ibrahim, and Ibrahim Abdikarim, who helped at different stages of my fieldwork, in addition to the many people in Kenya who generously shared aspects of their lives with me. Thanks are also due to Dr Alden Young, Dr Mathew Barton, Dr Timothy Parsons, Alice Brown, Pete Tridish, and the three anonymous readers at The Journal of African History, who read early drafts of this article. Stanford University, the Mellon Foundation, and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania generously supported my writing and research. Author's email: kerenwe@sas.upenn.edu

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5 The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was technically known as the East Africa Protectorate prior to 1920.

6 J. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, 1998), 2.

7 Ibid.

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20 See M. Jerven, Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It (Ithaca, NY, 2013), 1–7. Morten Jerven's work, which calls into question indicators such as GDP, has sparked a reevaluation among economic historians of the uses and misuses of statistical data.

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25 Some Somali traders also immigrated from Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia.

26 ‘Clan’ should be understood as an imprecise label. The term is defined relationally and what it means in any given context varies. It is also likely that members of other clans who immigrated to Kenya ultimately came to identify as Isaaq or Harti.

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32 For more on ‘hybrid’ forms of governance on the borderlands of colonial states, see A. Walraet, ‘State-making and emerging complexes of power and accumulation in the Southern Sudan-Kenyan border area: the rise of a thriving cross-border business network’, in C. Vaughan, M. Schomerus, and L. de Vries (eds.), The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (New York, 2013), 173–92.

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36 KNA PC NFD 1/5/2, F. G. Jennings, ‘Wajir annual report’, 1932.

37 KNA PC NFD 1/5/2, ‘Wajir annual report’, 1933.

38 Ibid. 5.

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40 KNA PC NFD 1/5/2, ‘Annual report for the year 1934, Wajir District, NFD’, 1–5, 15.

41 M. Mamdani, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (Princeton, NJ, 1996), 16–21.

42 Sir Richard Burton helped to popularize this image of the Somalis in the mid-nineteenth century. R. F. Burton, ‘The Somal, their origin and peculiarities’, in I. Burton (ed.), First Footsteps in East Africa or, An Exploration of Harar, Two Volumes Bound as One, vol. I (New York, 1987 [orig. pub. 1856]), 70–5.

43 KNA PC NFD 4/1/6, ‘Somali Exemption Ordinance 1919 and the Somali exemption rules 1919’, letter from Chief Native Commissioner to all Provincial Commissioners, 2 Feb. 1920; interview with Zaynab Sharif, Nairobi, 13 Jan. 2011; interview with Hassan Ahmed Warsame, Nairobi, 11 Oct. 2010.

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45 TNA CO 533/402/6, letter from H. Kittermaster to Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for the Colonies, 10 Sept. 1930.

46 It is worth noting, however, that colonial officials often struggled to give their subjects singular and unambiguous ethnic labels. See Parsons, T., ‘Being Kikuyu in Meru: challenging the tribal geography of colonial Kenya’, The Journal of African History, 53:1 (2012), 65–86CrossRefGoogle Scholar, doi: 10.1017/S0021853712000023.

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56 KNA AG 39/120, ‘Objects of the Somali Registration Bill’.

57 KNA AG 39/120, letter from G. Reece to G. M. Rennie, Chief Secretary, 16 Jan. 1940.

58 A concern that no doubt grew as increasing numbers of Somali soldiers began fighting in the Second World War on behalf of the British Empire. To preempt accusations of racial discrimination, the governor of Kenya instead implemented a far more limited system of registration for ‘non-natives’ residing in the NFD. KNA AG 39/120, ‘Government notice No. 506: The defence (Northern Frontier District) regulations’, in Kenya, The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (Supplement No. 23) 43:24 (Nairobi, 3 June 1941), 169.

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64 For more on the history of postwar development projects in Africa, see F. Cooper, ‘Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept’, in F. Cooper and R. Packard (eds.), International Development and the Social Sciences: Essays on the History and Politics of Knowledge (Berkeley, CA, 1997), 64–92.

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67 KNA DC ISO 3/6/26, ‘Alien Somali settlement scheme’, letter from G. Reece, Officer-in-Charge, Northern Frontier District to Chief Secretary, 12 Mar. 1940, 6.

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69 KNA DC ISO 3/6/26, ‘Somali settlement’, letter from T. G. Askwith, District Commissioner, Isiolo District to Officer-in-Charge, Northern Frontier District, 16 Apr. 1943.

70 KNA PC NFD 5/5/1, D. C. Edwards, Senior Agricultural Officer (Pasture Research), 20 Nov. 1943.

71 KNA DC MDA 5/1, G. Reece, ‘Control of grazing areas’, 23 July 1945.

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74 KNA PC NFD 1/1/9, ‘Northern Province annual report, 1947’, 4–5; KNA SA 15/17, ‘Wajir District handing-over report’, letter from P. G. P. D. Fullerton to J. M. Golds, 20 May 1961.

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76 KNA DC WAJ 2/1/4, ‘Minutes of Chiefs’ and Headmen's Meeting Held at Wajir’, 25 Jan. 1948.

77 As Andrew S. Mathews has shown of Mexico, ‘official knowledge’ rarely ‘arises from the imposition of legibility’, but is more often ‘the relatively fragile product of negotiations between officials and their audiences in meeting halls and offices’. A. S. Mathews, Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests (Cambridge, MA, 2011), 15.

78 As Mohammed Farah notes, ‘no clan boundary, no matter how well-adjudged, could be said to contain all that was necessary for the needs of the livestock’. M. I. Farah, From Ethnic Response to Clan Identity: A Study of State Penetration Among the Somali Nomadic Pastoral Society of Northeastern Kenya (Uppsala, 1993), 133.

79 KNA PC NFD 1/1/10, ‘Northern Frontier Province annual report, 1951’, 2.

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82 East African Statistical Department, African Population of Kenya Colony and Protectorate: Geographical and Tribal Studies, 1948 (Nairobi, 15 Sept. 1950), 5–6.

83 KNA PC NGO 1/1/18, letter from R. G. Turnbull, Provincial Commissioner, Northern Province to E. A. Sweatman, Officer-in-Charge, Maasai, 24 Nov. 1952.

84 Ibid.

85 KNA PC NGO 1/1/18, letter from Ag. Secretary for African Affairs to Provincial Commissioners of Nyanza, Coast, Rift Valley, Southern, and Central Provinces and Officer-in-Charge of Nairobi Extra-Provincial District, 18 June 1956.

86 KNA DC MUR 3/1/21, ‘The Somali Census in Kenya Colony’, letter from Officer-in-Charge of Somali Census to Ag. Provincial Commissioner, Central Province, 28 Nov. 1956.

87 Between 1957 and 1959, Somali political associations petitioned the government to give Somalis outside of the NFD employment opportunities as well as their own member in the Legislative Council. There were approximately 8,000 Somalis living outside of the NFD at this time. (Somali veterans of the Second World War had augmented their numbers). KNA CS 28/2/1, letter from A. Warsame, Vice President of the United Somali Association to Chief Secretary, 7 Oct. 1957; KNA CS 28/2/2, letter from President, Somali National Association to Chief Secretary, 24 Feb. 1959; KNA CS 28/2/2, letter from W. F. Coutts, Chief Secretary to M. Blundell, Minister for Agriculture, 7 Apr. 1959.

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