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Improvised adolescence : Somali Bantu teenage refugees in America
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ISBN: 0299303233 9780299303235 9780299303242 0299303241 Year: 2015 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin ; London, England : The University of Wisconsin Press,

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Elusive Jannah : the Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity
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ISBN: 9780816697380 0816697388 9780816697397 0816697396 1452945047 Year: 2015 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press


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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethopia, 1300-1700
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ISBN: 1782045805 1847011179 1847011616 Year: 2015 Publisher: Rochester, NY : James Currey,

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This revisionary account of the Oromo people and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia transforms our perception of the country's development, rebutting the common depiction of the Oromo as no more than a destructive force and demonstrating their significant role in shaping the course of Ethiopian history. Tracing the early history of the Oromo as part of the Cushitic language speaking family of peoples, it establishes that they were neither foreigners nor newcomers to Ethiopia, but have been an integral part of the indigenous population since at least the first half of the 14th century. The massive sixteenth-century pastoral Oromo population movement revolutionized relations between the Christians and the Oromo. During the long process of assimilation that followed, with periods of both war and peace in central and southern Ethiopia, Oromo society was able to absorb and assimilate Cushitic and Semitic language speakers and Oromize them through the open, democratic and egalitarian 'Gada' system; while in northern Ethiopia the Oromo themselves were absorbed into Christian Amhara society. Mohammed Hassen is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Georgia State University. His books include 'The Oromo of Ethiopia: A History, 1570 to 1860' (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He is a Contributing Editor of 'The Journal of Oromo Studies' and 'The Horn of Africa' journal.


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Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya : a social history of the Shifta Conflict, c. 1963-1968
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ISBN: 9004283080 9789004283084 9789004282674 900428267X 1322223629 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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In Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Kenya , Hannah Whittaker offers an in-depth analysis of the Somali secessionist war in northern Kenya, 1963-68. Combining archival and oral data, the work captures the complexity of the conflict, which combined a series of local, national and regional confrontations. The conflict was not, Whittaker argues, evidence of the potency of Somali nationalism, but rather an early expression of its failure. The book also deals with the Kenyan government’s response to the conflict as part of the entrenchment of African colonial boundaries at independence. Contrary to current narratives of an increasingly borderless world, Whittaker reminds us of the violence that is produced by state-led attempts to shore up contested borderlands. This work provides vital insights into the history behind the on-going troubled relationship between the Kenyan state and its Somali minority, and between Kenya and Somalia.

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