A British district commissioner recalls his years at Zeila and on the Abyssinian border: raiders and frontier politics, court cases, local personalities, quarrels between wives and the folklore of the Somali clans. Sketches of daily administration mix with tales told around the camp, such as the meeting of Sheikh Ishaak and the Yibir sorcerer.
A lively record of colonial Somaliland, written with the outlook of a British official of the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.