The Man They Called ‘The Mad Mullah’

In the Horn of Africa at the beginning of the 20th century, anticolonial struggle is the subject of this tale. The British, Italians, French, and Ethiopians occupied a large portion of the area, and one man led a 20-year resistance movement that seriously challenged European colonial rule. Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, a poet, military leader, and author of the armed Dervish Movement, was a Sufi Muslim.