Full Description
Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.
State borders are more than barriers. They structure social, economic and political spaces and as such provide opportunities as well as obstacles for the communities straddling both sides of the border. This book deals with the conduits and opportunities of state borders in the Horn of Africa, and investigates how the people living there exploit them through various strategies.
Using a micro level perspective, the case studies, which include the borders of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, focus on opportunities, highlight the agency of the borderlanders, and acknowledge the permeability but consequentiality of the borders.
Dereje Feyissa is Africa Research Director at the International Law and Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Markus Virgil Hoehne is a Lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology at Leipzig University.
Contents
Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther Schlee
Preface by the Editors
State Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne
More State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje Feyissa
Making Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu Adugna
The Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. Smidt
Trans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed Yasin
People & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil Hoehne
The Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric Barnes
The Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee Cassanelli
Magendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula Wekesa
Can Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca Declich
Conclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham
