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The Country That Does Not Exist
- A History of Somaliland
Engelsk Hardback
The Country That Does Not Exist
- A History of Somaliland
Engelsk Hardback

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The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonisation and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. 'Africa Confidential' wrote at the timethat 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 fourteenyears 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 recognised 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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781787382039
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787382036
Udg. Dato:
21 jan 2021
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
147mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
21 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
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