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Making and Breaking States in Africa

The Somali Experience

ISBN-13: 9781569022900

Contributor(s): Ioan M M Lewis

Subject: African Studies (Regional)

Publisher Imprint: The Red Sea Press

Publication Date: 24-06-2010

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£34.95

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About the book

Analyses the crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with modernity, the Somalis illustrate both extremes of modern African statehood. In contemporary Somalia, they have produced the most extreme example of a failed state, while in the Somaliland Republic, they have achieved what is regarded as the most democratic state on the continent.