The country that does not exist : a history of Somaliland /
The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonization and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960, a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. Africa Confidential wrot...
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London :
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- A nation in search of a state: the Somali mystique of unity
- United we fall: Somalia from independence to civil war
- Founding and fostering the Somali National Movement (SNM)
- SNM: the slow growth of an odd guerrilla force in the hard-edged cold war landscape
- Cold war recess: The Mogadishu-SNM stand-off in an indifferent world, 1984-1988
- And suddenly all hell broke loose, 1988
- The local war in the north goes global, 1989-1991
- North and south break up and fight among themselves
- Independence, humanitarian invasion and sailing into the unknown
- Odd man out: Somaliland's fragile peace on the edge of Somalia's war without end
- From survival to globalisation: what is the need for a nation-state in Somaliland?