Banaadir

saw him where he was.

Benadir.

Somalia.

He's in

The annoying fact that at least part of this littoral belonged to Zanzibar was easily disposed of in 1892 by an arrangement with Great Britain, protector of Zanzibar.

Italy leased the coast, the so-called Benadir coast, for an annual rent of a hundred and sixty thousand rupees.

As the reward for his enterprising patriotism, Signor Filenardi obtained for a company which he organized and controlled the privilege of governing and exploiting the newly acquired lands, while the Italian government retained the privilege of paying the annual rent to Zanzibar and an annual subsidy to Filenardi's company.

Despite subsidies, the company was so unsuccessful that a few years later the government entrusted to a new company for fifty years all rights over soil and minerals, if found, the power to collect taxes and conduct the administration, and an annual subsidy of about two hundred thousand lira in addition to the rent due Zanzibar.

Could there be a more striking example of imperialism conducted for private profit at public loss? Yet the Italian company was not at all unique.

Subsidized commercial companies were the almost invariable rule in African empire building between 1880 and 1900.

The Italian company further resembled its German, French, and British compeers in proving inadequate to its task, and as the British and German East African companies had ultimately transferred their holdings to their governments, so also the Italian Benadir company yielded to Rome in 1905.

Since then, Italian taxpayers have more or less cheerfully, because unwittingly, paid several million lira a year to meet the deficits on a colony largely desert, while a private company headed by His Royal Highness the Duke of Abruzzi invested millions in the irrigation of a small area for agricultural colonization.

Jareerweyne lasoo dhahaa.

Waxa soo hari Banaadir.

Banaadir waxa soo galaya marka laga tago beelaha Hamar iyo Shingaane deggan, marka laga tago, Hamarweyne Shingaane deggan marka laga tago waxa soo galaya, ee, Reer Baraw.

Oo degaankoodu uu yahay iyagu Baraw yahay.

Koonfur galbeed haa.

Koonfur galbeed yahay.

Laakiin qeyb ahaan, siyaasad ahaan waxay ku jiraan qaanaadaan ah Banaadir.

Banaadirku, okay.

The annoying fact that at least part of this littoral belonged to Zanzibar was easily disposed of in 1892 by an arrangement with Great Britain, protector of Zanzibar.

Italy leased the coast, the so-called Benadir coast, for an annual rent of 160,000 rupees.

As the reward for his enterprising patriotism, Signor Filenardi obtained for a company which he organized and controlled the privilege of governing and exploiting the newly acquired lands, while the Italian government retained the privilege of paying the annual rent to Zanzibar and an annual subsidy to Filenardi's company.

Despite subsidies, the company was so unsuccessful that a few years later the government entrusted to a new company for 50 years all rights over soil and minerals, if found, the power to collect taxes and conduct the administration, and an annual subsidy of about 200,000 lira in addition to the rent due Zanzibar.