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Nomads in the Shadows of Empires: Contests, Conflicts and Legacies on the Southern Ethiopian-Northern Kenyan Frontier: 30
Author(s): Gufu Oba (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 318 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004244395
- ISBN-13: 9789004244399
Book Description
In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires, Gufu Oba offers accounts of the outcomes of imperial state contests over trans-frontier treaty, nomads grazing and watering movements, banditry, ethnic conflicts and wars that created lasting legacies along the southern Ethiopian-northern Kenyan frontier.
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‘Oba (ecology, Norwegian U. of Life Sciences) draws not only on academic studies, but also on the experience of his own grandparents and parents, who lived through the partitioning of the frontiers region between the Empire of Ethiopia and the British East African Protectorate of Kenya. The colonial era has implications for how control was exercised over formerly free populations, he says, and the history of frontiers in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere needs to shift focus from contests between imperial states to resistance by the frontier nomads’.
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Reference & Research Book News, December 2013About the Author
Gufu Oba, Dr Phil. (1996), is professor of Ecology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. His research is interdisciplinary, including frontier history, nomads and states in the Horn of Africa. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed journals.
