Horn of Africa as Common Homeland, The: The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization

233 Pages·2004·1 MB·English

by  Leenco Lata

The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The State and Self-Determination in the Era of Heightened Globalization
Leenco Lata
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The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The State and Self-Determination in the
Era of Heightened Globalization
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The Horn of Africa as Common Homeland
The State and Self-Determination in the
Era of Heightened Globalization
Leenco Lata
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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the
Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities. We
acknowledge the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Media Development
Corporation’s Ontario Book Initiative.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Lata, Leenco
The Horn of Africa as common homeland: the state and self-determination in
the era of heightened globalization / Leenco Lata.
1.Self-determination, National—Africa, Northeast. 2. Africa, Northeast—Poli-
tics and government—1974– i.Title.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-88920-456-x
dt367.8.l38 2004 963.07'2 c2004-905083-4
© 2004Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Cover photograph: Mogadishu, Somalia. Gunman on guard outside the offices of a
new radio station, Horn Afrik, to protect it from looting bandits or militiamen from
rival clans. A sign on the wall asks that visitors leave their weapons outside the com-
pound. Photo © Sven Torfinn/Panos Pictures.
Cover design by Leslie Macredie; text design by P.J.Woodland.
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omissions called to the publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings.
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Dedicated to Gunnar Hasselblatt
for his solidarity and generosity at
a time when the struggle of the
Oromo people had very few friends.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures and Maps ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part I Self-Determination in History 13
1 Self-Determination as Popular Sovereignty 15
2 Decolonization in Africa: Aberrant Self-Determination 31
3 Post-Cold War Trends in the Nature of the State 37
4 Emerging Trends in Self-Determination 65
Part II Resonance of Conflicts in the Horn of Africa 83
5 Interactive State Formation in the Horn of Africa 85
6 The Uncertain and Interdependent Fate of Horn Entities 105
7 Nation-Building: Fitting States into National Moulds 115
8 Nation-Building in the Sudan 139
9 Unification and Nation-Building: Somalia’s Sacred Mission 155
10 Imagining the Horn of Africa Common Homeland 163
11 Conclusion 191
References 201
Index 215
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List of Figures and Maps
Figure 1 Graphic Representation of Community in Space
and Authority 77
Map 1 Egyptian Lines of Advance 89
Map 2 French and Italian Lines of Advance 95
Map 3 Tripartite Partition: Kitchener Scheme of 1913 107
Map 4 Anglo-Italian World War iPartition Scheme 107
Map 5 Italian Administrative Divisions 109
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