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Putting The Cart Before The Horse

Contested Nationalism and the Crisis of the Nation-State in Somalia

ISBN-13: 9781569022030

Contributor(s): Abdi Kusow

Subjects: African Studies (Regional)

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: The Red Sea Press

Publication Date: 01-03-2005

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£29.95

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About the book

This book represents an attempt to introduce the notion of contested national identity as a theoretical framework for understanding the crisis of the nation-state in Somalia. The volume depicts a major shift in the study of Somali historiography in that the contributors challenge the well-known Somali assumption that a common culture can form the basis for national solidarity regardless of the social and political contexts within with the boundaries are constituted.

Putting The Cart Before The Horse

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