Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

(Part of the The Ethnography of Political Violence Series)

by Catherine Besteman

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In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees.

During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812216881

ISBN13:9780812216882

Release Date:May 1999

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Africa Central Africa Discrimination & Racism History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Slavery & Emancipation Social Science Social Sciences

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