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The Country That Does Not Exist: A History of Somaliland

The Country That Does Not Exist: A History of Somaliland

Prunier, Gérard

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1787382036
ISBN13: 9781787382039
Publisher: Hurst & Co
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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 wrote at the time that the new Somali state would never be beset by tribal division but this discounted the existence of powerful clans within Somali society and the persistence of colonial administrative cultures. The collapse of parliamentary democracy in 1969 and the resulting army--and clanic--dictatorship that followed led to a civil war in the 'perfect' national state. It lasted fourteen years in the British North and is still raging today in the 'Italian' South.

Somaliland re-birthed itself through an enormous solo effort but the viable nation so recreated within its former colonial borders was never internationally recognized and still struggles to exist economically and diplomatically.

This book recounts an African success story where the peace so widely acclaimed by the international community has had no reward but its own lonely achievement.

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