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Title: | Anti-Colonialism and Class Formation: The Eastern Horn of Africa before 1950 |
Author: | Geshekter, Charles L. |
Year: | 1985 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-32 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | Somali class formation nation colonialism nationalism Politics and Government History and Exploration Inter-African Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217972 |
Abstract: | The conflict of Ethiopian claims to the Somali-inhabited Ogaden is rooted in the specific conditions of a region where an African empire and an African nation pursue irreconcilable objectives. Ethiopian rulers vow to maintain the territorial integrity of their empire-state and repudiate the notion that Somali-speaking people, regardless of their current jurisdiction, should be allowed the right of self-determination. Somalis insist that empirical criteria, not the juridical ones preferred by Ethiopia, objectively establish the socio-economic and cultural orientation of the Ogaden Somalis that forms the basis for their nationalist identification with Somalia. This article attempts to explain why Somalis persistently refuse to accept Ethiopian claims to the Ogaden. The article also highlights the role of the Somali petit-bourgeoisie in helping to establish political organizations. Somali class structure and class formation in a Somali pastoralist economy is studied and explained by drawing from orally transmitted materials for historical reconstruction. Map, notes, tab. |