National and class conflict in the Horn of Africa

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Title:	National and class conflict in the Horn of Africa
Author:	Markakis, John
Year:	1987
Issue:	55
Pages:	314
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:	Cambridge
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	0521333628
Geographic term:	Northeast Africa
Subjects:	rebellions class struggle
Abstract:	The origins of the current conflicts in Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Djibouti and the part of Kenya inhabited by Somali nomads are traced, covering the roughly hundred years that have passed since the advent of imperialism in the region. The author surveys the change wrought in the material setting during this period and charts the social transformation which produced political power structures based on new material resources and modern forms of organization. His purpose is to identify contradictions that were inherent in this process of change and were inscribed in the emerging sociopolitical pattern, because these contradictions are at the root of the current conflict in the Horn. Iniquitous in the extreme, the sociopolitical pattern formed under colonialism has been under attack since. The bulk of the study is devoted to the political movements whose goal is to change the structure of the existing States, or to establish States of their own. The information concerning them was gathered in its entirety through interviews.