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The country that does not exist: a history of Somaliland/ Gérard Prunier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prunier, Gérard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decolonization--Somalia--History--20th century.
- Decolonization.
- Clans--Somalia--History--20th century.
- Clans.
- History.
- Somalia--History--1960-1991.
- Somalia.
- Somalia--Politics and government--1960-1991.
- Politics and government.
- Somalia--Social conditions--1960-.
- Social conditions.
- Somalia--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 279 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hurst & Company, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonization and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. Africa Confidential wrote at the time that the new Somali state would never be beset by tribal division but this discounted the existence of powerful clans within Somali society and the persistence of colonial administrative cultures. The collapse of parliamentary democracy in 1969 and the resulting army--and clanic--dictatorship that followed led to a civil war in the 'perfect' national state. It lasted fourteen years in the "British" North and is still raging today in the 'Italian' South. Somaliland "re-birthed" itself through an enormous solo effort but the viable nation so recreated within its former colonial borders was never internationally recognized and still struggles to exist economically and diplomatically. This book recounts an African success story where the peace so widely acclaimed by the international community has had no reward but its own lonely achievement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781787385290
- 1787385299
- Publisher Number:
- 99988059022
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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