Keenadiid returns to Somalia from Arabia a…

Keenadiid returns to Somalia from Arabia a decade later, in the 1870s, with a score of Hadhrami musketeers and a band of devoted lieutenants.

With their help, he carves out the small kingdom of Hobyo after conquering the local Hawiye clans.

Both kingdoms, however, will be gradually absorbed by the extension into southern Somalia of Italian colonial rule in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.