''The Somalis, who have succeeded to their position, crossed from Asia at a later date, and were at first confined to the strip of land along the eastern coast of Africa, to the south of Cape Guardafui. The Somalis are certainly closely related to the Oromos; they have similar high foreheads, straight nostrils, thin lips, and long clinky hair. According to Somali tradition, the two ethnic groups were cousins; but the Somalis accepted light from Islam when they were offered it, while the Oromos clung to their ancestral paganism. This is not unlikely to be the source of the present difference between their positions. Their religion has given to the Somali a power and motivating force, which has enabled them, in spite of lack of cohesion among the clans, to advance southwards and westards. Oromos, Wadone, Wasaniya, Walangulo, Pokomo, have all gone down before their resistless march, and now only the agricultural tribes of the Wa-kamba and Kikuyu remain as buffer states between them and the Masai. Unless England intervenes these peaceful tribes seem doomed, and then the Masai and the Somalis, left face to face, will commence a fight for the mastery, which will turn East Africa into an even greater pandemonium than it is today.''
[The Great Rift Valley : being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo : with some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology and future prospects of British East Africa
by Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932: pages 365-370]
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[The Great Rift Valley : being the narrative of a journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo : with some account of the geology, natural history, anthropology and future prospects of British East Africa
by Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932: pages 365-370]
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