Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

by Catherine Besteman

In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees.

During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216881
• ISBN13: 9780812216882
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"