Thus, although by 1950 a measure of representative government had been granted to the Côte, and more in fact than was given at the time to British Somaliland or Somalia, both these territories had experienced a more profound and far-reaching political awakening. … Unfortunately for Somali national aspirations, however, the unique opportunity which had existed for welding these two territories together with the Ogaden and Haud, and preparing this national entity for self-government under a single system of rule, had been irretrievably lost. For the present, Somali nationalist activity was accordingly forced to concentrate most of its energies upon local issues in British Somaliland and Somalia, while elsewhere it was suppressed and condemned to a clandestine existence.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 373