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Understanding Somalia and Somaliland - Culture, History and Society (Paperback)
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Understanding Somalia and Somaliland - Culture, History and Society (Paperback)
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Loot Price R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
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This succinct volume highlights the salient aspects of the history
and culture of the Somali people, distilling for the non-specialist
in a readily accessible form Ioan Lewis' vast erudition on all
things Somali. He also addresses developments in the Somali
political region since the collapse of the Republic in 1991,
including accounts of the functioning and democratic state of
Somaliland, which still awaits international recognition, of the
various autonomous regions, such as Puntland, and of the Islamist
movement that under the banner of the Islamic Courts Union brought
a brief but astonishing period of stability to much of Southern
Somalia in late 2006. Anita Adam contributes chapters on the urban
culture of Benadiri Somalis that illustrate the complexity of what
constitutes 'Somaliness'. In early 2007 America and its regional
ally, Ethiopia, intervened militarily to install a regime in
Mogadishu more to their liking than the allegedly Al
Qaeda-influenced Islamic Courts government. This book provides the
essential historical and political background to a
little-understood culture and people whose predicament continues to
hold the world's attention.
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