The British gave the Jubaland to the Italians because of Italian military support in WWI. You did notice the British kept the NFD? Nassib Bundo beat the Ogaden and kept them away from the river. It was the Italians that beat Bundo and the Gosha Sultanate.
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"In the 1870s, Nassib Bundo began to gain political importance by participating in the battles against the hunters and collectors of the
bonuses and in 1875/76 appeared in negotiations with an Egyptian expedition as a leader of the Gosha residents in appearance. The Egyptians were initially unsure whether to consider him or the
Makua Farahan Makua as head of the Gosha, but Farahan Makua was killed, possibly at the instigation of Nassib Bundo. Within the Gosha, Nassib Bundo prevailed against other rivals such as the Zigula
Makoma Maligo and the
Ngindo Songollo Mafula . Around 1885 Nassib Bundo was recognized as the head of several villages. He established a "Sultanate Goshaland" as a political and military unit of several villages and was recognized by
Zanzibar and later by the advancing European colonial powers as "Sultan". Using firearms acquired through trade with Zanzibar, the Gosha residents succeeded under his leadership to defeat the Ogadeni-Darod around 1890. These had previously traded with the former slaves, but also repeatedly invaded villages. On the other hand, he agreed with parts of the nomadic Somali clans of the Biimal and Sheekhaal to refrain from taking slaves who escaped from them in his villages; maybe he even refunded some of them.
To consolidate his power, Nassib Bundo combined Islamic and traditional African mysticism. In traditions he is said to have supernatural abilities, such as that he could use wild animals in his favor. So he is said to have sent the crocodiles of the Jubba River against his rivals within the Gosha, and he threatened heads of families who refused to give him their daughters into marriage. From the villages below, he is said to have demanded virgins as a tribute, moreover, he should have claimed a substantial part of the existing prosperity for themselves.
The colonial powers Great Britain and Italy, which invaded the area around 1890, both sought to secure Nassib Bundo's support by offering him a scholarship. However, Nassib Bundo remained suspicious of them and was keen to maintain his position within the Gosha. Around 1903, he allegedly had correspondence with
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, who led a rebellion against the colonizers in northern Somalia and sought allies in the south. After all, there were other Gosha leaders - including his own son - who complained to the Italians about his rule. Nassib Bundo was then arrested and died in 1906 in a prison in Mogadishu at senility and disease.
Reception
Nassib Bundo's death was mentioned in a poem by a Somali from
Hobyo , which shows how far his fame had been during his lifetime.
It was sometimes stylized as "African
Spartacus " during Italian
fascist rule, and Italian author
Ugo Bargoni wrote a novel about him in 1931 (
Nel regno di Nassib Bundo, Lo Spartaco della Somalia Italiana ). In Somalia's independence in 1960, Nassib Bundo was named by the
Somali Youth League as one of the country's anti-colonial heroes.
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On the one hand, the Gosha is reminiscent of the sometimes tyrannical behavior of Nassib Bundo, on the other hand he is especially honored as a hero because of the important victory against the Ogadeni."