Sun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the Note-Book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland (1921)

Sun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the Note-Book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland (1921)
Author: Major H. Rayne
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1447485432

Originally published in 1921, this interesting book contains pages from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland, offering a fascinating and unique insight into the area during the British occupation. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Gaboye of Somaliland

The Gaboye of Somaliland
Author: Elia Vitturini
Publisher: Ledizioni
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 885526981X

The book explores the history of a minority group, the Gaboye, in Somaliland, and, using a historical ethnographic approach, addresses two main issues. First, the analysis addresses the transformation and reproduction of the social boundary which separates an ascribed status-based minority group within the society: what symbolic, political, economic and social apparatuses have articulated the boundary and the belonging to this minority group? How have these apparatuses changed? Second, the analysis adopts the trajectory of the minority members in the town of Hargeysa as a perspective on the history of north-western Somali society: from the point of view of an ascribed status-based minority group, what can we see of the social, economic and political changes which occurred during the decades of slow colonial penetration into the area, of urban expansion, of postcolonial state consolidation and collapse, civil war, mass displacement, peace building, and the contemporary waves of diasporisation of this society?

Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho)

Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho)
Author: I. M. Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315308177

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

British Somaliland

British Somaliland
Author: Brock Millman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 131797543X

British Somaliland provides a history of the administration of the British Somaliland Protectorate from the time when Somaliland first became governable, following the defeat of Abdullah Hassan, to independence. Describing the interplay between general imperial policies, and greater realities and developments in Somaliland, the focus of the book remains on the mechanism by which the Protectorate was operated. The regime that developed was, in the end, a highly autocratic despotism, generally benign but occasionally predatory. Independence, when it arrived, was, in retrospect, a tragedy. Somaliland was absorbed into Somalia and a governmental style which suited the conditions of the Protectorate was dissolved into something very different. Since the collapse of Somalia, re-emergent Somaliland appears to be attempting to re-connect to a past remembered as something of a golden age. Highly topical, as Somaliland is re-emerging, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of African History, Imperial History and British History.