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Title: | The Somali-Ethiopians: The Quest for Alternative Futures: National Identity and Imposed Boundaries |
Authors: | Brons, Maria Doornbos, Martin Salih, M.A. Mohamed |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 45-70 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs., maps |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | Somali ethnicity rebellions Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government politics history democratization political science |
Abstract: | In the Ogaden region between Ethiopia and Somalia, the political boundaries nurtured by the former colonial powers and the Ethiopian imperial regime were inconsistent with those perceived by the Somali pastoralist inhabitants, and colonial partition has laid the basis for profound and long-term conflicts. The authors address the issues of Somali-Ethiopian identity in the context of the ever-changing patterns of alliances and conflicts between Ethiopia and Somalia in the Ogaden region and their potential impact on the political perceptions of the people of the Ogaden and the self-identification of Somali-Ethiopians. They deal with the political orientation of the Somali-Ethiopian towards the Ethiopian empire and subsequent regimes, the rise and fall of the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) and its offshoot, the Somali Abbo Liberation Front (SALF), the shattered identities of Somali-Ethiopians who became refugees/returnees in the wake of the Somali-Ethiopian war (1977/78) and the civil war in Somalia (1988 to mid-1993), the new political perspectives in Ethiopia following the collapse of the Mengistu regime in 1991 and the Somali-Ethiopian response, and alternative options for the political future of the Somali-Ethiopian. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |