Political Identities in the Horn of Africa: Books

Regional and Comparative Studies

Bezabeh, Samson A. Horn of Africa, migration and Middle East civil wars. Kampala, Uganda : Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, July 2018.

_______. Subjects of empires, citizens of states : Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia. Cairo ; The American University in Cairo Press, 2016.
--See also: E-book

Campbell, John. Nationalism, law and statelessness : grand illusions in the Horn of Africa. E-book. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Changing identifications and alliances in north-east Africa. 2 vols. Edited by Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E. Watson.  New York : Berghahn Books, 2009-

Clapham, Christopher. The Horn of Africa : state formation and decay. London : C. Hurst & Co. Ltd., 2017. 

Conditions for the possibility of peace in the Horn of Africa : proceedings, 4th International Conference on the Horn of Africa, May 26-28, 1989, New York, New York, City College of CUNY, Teachers College of Columbia University. New York : Center for the Study of the Horn of Africa, 1990.

Contemporary economics, politics and culture in the Horn of Africa : May 28-29, 1988, The City College of the City University of New York. [New York, N.Y.] : [City University of New York], 1989.

The crisis of democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa : towards building institutional foundations. E-book. Edited by Kidane Mengisteab.  Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2020.

De Waal, Alex. The real politics of the Horn of Africa : money, war and the business of power. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2015.

East Africa and the Horn : confronting challenges to good governance. Edited by Dorina A. Bekoe. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.

Erlikh, Ḥagai. The cross and the river : Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002.
--See also: E-book

_______. Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2010.
--See also: E-book

The Ethiopian Revolution and its impact on the politics of the Horn of Africa : May 29-30, 1987, New School for Social Research, New York, New York : Proceedings. New York, N.Y. : The School ; [Flushing, N.Y.] : [Order from Queens College/Africana Studies of the City University of New York], [1987].

Ethnicity & conflict in the Horn.  Edited by Katsuyoshi Fukui and John Markakis.  London : James Currey : Athens [Ohio] : Ohio Univ. Press, 1994.

Ethnicity and the state in eastern Africa. Edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998.

Fessha, Yonatan Tesfaye. Ethnic diversity and federalism : constitution making in South Africa and Ethiopia. Farnham : Ashgate, c2010.
--See also: E-book

Fighting for inclusion : conflicts among pastoralists in eastern Africa and the Horn. Edited by Paul Goldsmith in collaboration with Hussein Ahmed & Mustafa Babiker. Nairobi : Development Policy Management Forum, 2007.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile basin : implications for transboundary water cooperation. E-book. Edited by Zeray Yihdego, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, and Ana Elisa Cascão. [New York]: Routledge, 2017. 

Griaule, Marcel, Michel Leiris, Deborah LIfchitz ...[et al.]. Cahier Dakar Djibouti. Edition établie, présentée et annotée par Éric Jolly et Marianne Lemaire; avec la collaboration de Julien Bondaz, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Marie Gautheron ...[et. al.]. [Meurcourt, France] : Éditions les Cahiers, [2015].

The Horn of Africa : intra-state and inter-state conflicts and security. Edited by Redie Bereketeab.  London : Pluto Press, 2013.
--See also: E-book

Imperato, Pascal James. Quest for the Jade Sea : colonial competition around an East African lake. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1998.

Jackson, Donna R. U.S. foreign policy in the Horn of Africa : from colonialism to terrorism.  Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
--See also: E-book

Kidane Mengisteab. The Horn of Africa. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2014.
--See also: E-book

Land and hydropolitics in the Nile River basin : challenges and new investments. Edited by Emil Sandström, Anders Jägerskog and Terje Oestigaard.   London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. 
--See also: E-book.

Lands of the future : anthropological perspectives on pastoralism, land deals and tropes of modernity in eastern Africa. E-book. Edited by Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet, John G. Galaty, and Günther Schlee. New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.

Lewis, I. M. Peoples of the Horn of Africa (Somali, Afar and Saho).  London: International Africa Institute, [1969].
--See also: 1955 edition -and- E-book of 1955 edition

Mamdani, Mahmood. Neither settler nor native : the making and unmaking of permanent minorities. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
--See also: E-book -and- 2nd e-book

Markakis, John. National and class conflict in the Horn of Africa. Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Milas, Seifulaziz Leo.  Sharing the Nile : Egypt, Ethiopia and the geo-politics of water. E-book. London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Narrating the Nile : politics, cultures, identities. Edited by Israel Gershoni, Meir Hatina. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
--See also: E-book

Prendergast, John. Crisis response : humanitarian band-aids in Sudan and Somalia. London ; Chicago, Ill. : Pluto Press : With Center of Concern, 1997.
--See also: E-book

Race and identity in the Nile Valley : ancient and modern perspectives.  Edited by Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Kharyssa Rhodes. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2004. 

Refugees and forced migration in the Horn and eastern Africa: trends, challenges and opportunities. E-book. Edited by Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt, Leah Kimathi, Michael Omondi Owiso. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

Reid, Richard J. Frontiers of violence in north-east Africa : genealogies of conflict since c.1800. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011. 
--See also: E-book

Schlee, Günther. Islam & ethnicity in northern Kenya & southern Ethiopia. Edited by Abdullahi A. Shongolo. United Kingdom : James Currey, 2012.
--See also: E-book

———. Pastoralism & politics in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. Edited by Abdullahi A. Shongolo. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; James Currey, 2012.

The road less traveled : reflections on the literatures of the Horn of Africa. Edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed and Taddesse Adera. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008.

State building and national identity reconstruction in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Redie Bereketeab. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Thompson, Vincent Bakpetu. Conflict in the Horn of Africa : the Kenya-Somalia border problem, 1941-2014. Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., [2015].

Tsega Endalew. The origins of ethnic conflict in Africa : politics and violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
--See also: E-book

Van Gelder de Pineda, Rosanna. Le chemin de fer de Djibouti à Addis-Abeba. Paris : Harmattan, 1995.

Woldemariam, Michael. Insurgent fragmentation in the Horn of Africa : rebellion and Its discontents. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
--See also: E-book

Woodward, Peter. Crisis in the Horn of Africa : politics, piracy and the threat of terror. London ; I.B. Tauris ; New York, 2013.

———. The Horn of Africa : state politics and international relations. London ; I.B. Tauris; New York, 1996.

Ylönen, Aleksi, and Jan Záhořík, eds. The Horn of Africa since the 1960s : international and local politics intertwined. E-book. New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. 

Djibouti

Adawa, Hassan Ali. Les sultanats de Tadjoura et Gooba’ad (1927-1935) : une remise en cause de la colonisation française.  Plouharnel : Les éditions du Menhir, [2017].

Aden, Mohamed. Roblek-Kamil : un héros Afar Somali de Tadjourah. Paris: Harmattan, c2006.

Bezabeh, Samson A. Djibouti : a political history. E-book. Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2023.
--See also: 2nd E-book copy

Centenaire de la ville de Djibouti, 1887-1987. [Djibouti] : Imprimerie nationale Djibouti, 1987.

Coubba, Ali. Mahmoud Harbi : 1921-1960 : un nationaliste djiboutien. Paris : Harmattan, c2014.

_______. Le mal djiboutien : rivalités ethniques et enjeux politiques. Paris : Harmattan, 1995.

Djibouti contemporain. Sous la direction de Amina Saïd Chiré. Paris : Karthala, c2013.

Dubois, Colette. Djibouti, 1888-1967 : héritage ou frustration. Paris : Harmattan, c1997.

Fontrier, Marc. Abou-Bakr Ibrahim, Pacha de Zeyla, marchand d’esclaves : commerce et diplomatie dans le golfe de Tadjoura, 1840-1885. Paris : Harmattan, c2003.

Histoire et archives de Djibouti et de sa région : perspectives et enjeux. Ouvrage collectif sous la direction du Docteur Adawa Hassan Ali. Paris : L'Harmattan, [2016].

Imbert-Vier, Simon. Tracer des frontières à Djibouti : des territoires et des hommes aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Paris : Karthala, c2011.

Oberlé, Philippe. Histoire de Djibouti : des origines à la république. Edited by Pierre Hugot and Phillipe Oberle. Paris : Présence africaine, c1985.

Thompson, Virginia and Richard Adloff. Djibouti and the Horn of Africa. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1968.

Eritrea and Ethiopia

Eritrea

Alemseged Abbay. Identity jilted, or, re-imagining identity? : the divergent paths of the Eritrean and Tigrayan nationalist struggles. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, 1998.

———.The Ethiopia-Eritrea rapprochment: peace and stability in the Horn of Africa. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2019.

Bereket Habre Selassie. The crown and the pen : the memoirs of a lawyer turned rebel. Trenton, NJ : The Red Sea Press, Inc., c2007.

Bereketeab, Redie. Eritrea : the making of a nation . Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2007.

———. Revisiting the Eritrean national liberation movement, 1961-1991. Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, [2016].

Connell, Dan. Against all odds : a chronicle of the Eritrean revolution : with a new foreword on the postwar transition . Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, 1997.

Collected articles on the Eritrean revolution. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2003.

Iyob, Ruth. The Eritrean struggle for independence : domination, resistance, nationalism, 1941-1993. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Kibreab, Gaim. Critical reflections on the Eritrean war of independence : social capital, associational life, religion, ethnicity and sowing seeds of dictatorship. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2008.

Kidane Mengisteab and Okbazghi Yohannes. Anatomy of the African tragedy : political, economic, and foreign policy crisis in post-independence Eritrea. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2005. 

Mesfin, Dawit. Woldeab Woldemariam : a visionary Eritrean patriot, a biography. Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, [2017].

Miran, Jonathan. Red Sea citizens : cosmopolitan society and cultural change in Massawa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Mohammed, Abdul Kader Saleh. The Saho of Eritrea : ethnic identity and national consciousness. Zürich : Lit Verlag, c2013.

Murphy, Sean D., Won Kidane, and Thomas R. Snider.  Litigating war : arbitration of civil injury by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission.  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
--See also: Offsite copy

Negash, Ghirmai. A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea : the oral and the written, 1890-1991. 2nd ed. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2010.

Pateman, Roy. Eritrea : even the stones are burning.  2nd and revised edition. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c1998.

Pool, David. From guerrillas to government : the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. Oxford [England] : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2001.

Post-conflict Eritrea : prospects for reconstruction and development. Edited by Alemseged Tesfai & Martin Doornbos. Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, c1999.

Sishagne, Shumet. Unionists and separatists : the vagaries of Ethio-Eritrean relation 1941-1991.  Hollywood, Ca : Tsehai Publishers and Distributors, c2007.

Tekeste Negash. Eritrea and Ethiopia : the federal experience. New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Tekeste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll.  Brothers at war : making sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war. Oxford : J. Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2000.

Tronvoll, Kjetil. Mai Weini, a highland village in Eritrea : a study of the people, their livelihood, and land tenure during times of turbulence. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c 1998.

Unfinished business : Eritrea and Ethiopia at war. Edited by Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2005.

 

Ethiopia

Aalen, Lovise. The politics of ethnicity in Ethiopia : actors, power and mobilisation under ethnic federalism. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
--See also: E-book

ʼAbaba Kifla ʼIyasus. Tradition and transformation : the Argobba of Ethiopia. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2006.

Abebe, Semahagn Gashu. The last post-Cold War socialist federation : ethnicity, ideology and democracy in Ethiopia. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014].

Abbink, J.. A decade of Ethiopia : politics, economy and society, 2004-2016. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Ahmed, Hussein. Islam in nineteenth-century Wallo, Ethiopia : revival, reform, and reaction. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Aida Edemariam. The wife's tale : a personal history. London 4th Estate, 2018.
--See also: New York edition

Almagor, Uri. Pastoral partners: affinity and bond partnership among the Dassanetch of south-west Ethiopia. New York : Africana Pub. Co., 1978.

Angelil, Marc M., and Dirk Hebel, eds. Cities of change, Addis Ababa : transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century. 2nd, rev. edition.  Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser, [2016].

Arrested development in Ethiopia : essays on underdevelopment, democracy, and self-determination. Edited by Seyoum Y. Hameso and Mohammed Hassen. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2006.

Asnake Kefale. Federalism and ethnic conflict in Ethiopia : a comparative regional study. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
--See also: E-book

Assefa Fiseha. Federalism and the accommodation of diversity in Ethiopia : a comparative study. Rev. ed. Nijmegen : Wolf Legal, [2007]

Atsbha Gebre Egziabher. Change and continuity in the Ethiopian sub-provinces : a history of Endärta awraja (Tigray, northern Ethiopia) (1941-1974). Saarbrücken, Germany : Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, [2012].

Bahru Zewde.  A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1991.  2nd edition.  Athens : Ohio University Press ; Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University Press, 2001.
--See also: E-book

_______.  Pioneers of change in Ethiopia : the reformist intellectuals of the early twentieth century.  Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University, 2002.

_______.  The quest for socialist utopia : the Ethiopian student movement, c. 1960-1974.  Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2014.  --See also: E-book

_______. Society & state in Ethiopian history : selected essays. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, Calif. : Tsehai  Publishers, c2012.

Barata, Data D.  Contesting inequalities, identities and rights in Ethiopia : the collision of passions.  E-book.  New York : Routledge, 2019.

Being and becoming Oromo : historical and anthropological enquiries. Edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet : Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, Inc., 1996.

Ben-Dror, Avishai. Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian : colonial experiences in late nineteenth-century Harar. Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2018.
--See also: E-book

Benti, Getahun. Addis Ababa : migration and the making of a multiethnic metropolis,1941-1974. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2007.

_______. Urban growth in Ethiopia, 1887-1974 : from the foundation of Finfinnee to the demise of the First Imperial Era. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
--See also: E-book

Berhe, Aregawi. A political history of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (1975-1991): revolt, ideology and mobilisation in Ethiopia. Los Angeles, CA : Tsehai Publishers & Distributors, c2009.

Berhe, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot. Laying the past to rest : the EPRDF and the challenges of Ethiopian state-building. E-book. London : Hurst & Company (Publishers), 2020.

Bulcha, Mekuria. Contours of the emergent and ancient Oromo nation : dilemmas in the Ethiopian politics of state and nation-building. Cape Town : Center for Advanced Studies of African Societies, c2011.

Bulcha Demeksa. My life : my vision for the Oromo and other peoples of Ethiopia. Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, Inc., [2013]

Contested power in Ethiopia : traditional authorities and multi-party elections. Edited by Kjetil Tronvoll and Tobias Hagmann. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Contested terrain : essays on Oromo studies, Ethiopianist discourses, and politically engaged scholarship. Edited by Ezekiel Gebissa. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2007.

De Lorenzi, James. Guardians of the tradition : historians and historical writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
--See also: 2018 edition

Documenting the Ethiopian student movement : an exercise in oral history.  Edited by Bahru Zewde.  Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies, c2010.
--See also: E-book

Donham, Donald L. History, power, ideology : central issues in Marxism and anthropology. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
--See also: 1999 print edition -and- E-book of 1999 edition

_______. Marxist modern : an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian Revolution. Berkeley : University of California Press ; Oxford : J. Currey, [1999].
--See also: E-book

Eshete, Tibebe. Jijiga : the history of a strategic town in the Horn of Africa. Los Angeles : Tsehai Publishers & Distributors, 2014.

Ethiopia : the challenge of democracy from below. Edited by Bahru Zewde and Siegfried Pausewang. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Addis Ababa : Forum for Social Studies, 2002.

Ethiopia since the Derg : a decade of democratic pretension and performance. Edited by Siegfried Pausewang, Kjetil Tronvoll, Lovise Aalen. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave, 2002.

Ethnic federalism : the Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective.  Edited by David Turton.  Oxford : James Currey : Athens, Ohio ; Ohio University press : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Addis Ababa University Press, 2006.

Freeman, Dena and Alula Pankhurst. Peripheral people : the excluded minorities of Ethiopia. London : C. Hurst, 2002.

Garretson, Peter P. A Victorian gentleman & Ethiopian nationalist : the life & times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr Charles Martin. Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2012.

Gebissa, Ezekiel. Leaf of Allah : khat & agricultural transformation in Harerge, Ethiopia 1875-1991. Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2004.

Gebru Tareke. The Ethiopian Revolution : war in the Horn of Africa. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
--See also: E-book

_______. Ethiopia : power and protest : peasant revolts in the twentieth century. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gedamu, Yohannes. The politics of contemporary Ethiopia : ethnic federalism and authoritarian survival. E-book. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Getahun, Solomon Addis. A history of the city of Gondar. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2006.

Grass-roots justice in Ethiopia : the contribution of customary dispute resolution. Edited by Alula Pankhurst and Getachew Assefa. Addis Ababa : Centre Français d'Études Éthiopiennes, 2008.

Haile-Selassie, Teferra. The Ethiopian Revolution, 1974-91 : from a monarchical autocracy to a military oligarchy. London ; New York : Kegan Paul International ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1997.
--See also: E-book

Hassen, Mohammed. The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia : 1300-1700. Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2015.

_______. The Oromo of Ethiopia : a history, 1570-1860. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 1994.
--See also: 1990 print edition -and- E-book of 1990 edition

Hiwot Teffera. Tower in the sky. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Addis Ababa University Press, 2012.

Jalata, Asafa. The Oromo movement and imperial politics : culture and ideology in Oromia and Ethiopia. E-book. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020]

_______. Oromia and Ethiopia : state formation and ethnonational conflict, 1868-2004. Revised edition. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2005.

Legal pluralism in Ethiopia : actors, challenges and solutions. Contributors, Getachew Assefa, Susanne Epple ...[et al.]. Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2020]
--See also: 2nd e-book copy

Legesse, Asmarom. Oromo democracy : an indigenous African political system. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, 2006, c2000.

Marcus, Harold G. A history of Ethiopia. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
--See also: 2002 print edition -and- E-book of 1994 edition

Markakis, John. Ethiopia : the last two frontiers. Woodbridge, Suffolk ;  Rochester, N.Y. James Currey, 2011.

Molvaer, Reidulf Knut. Black lions : the creative lives of modern Ethiopia's literary giants and pioneers. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c1997.

Mulugeta, Daniel. The everyday state in Africa : governance practices and state ideas in Ethiopia. E-book. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
--See also: 2nd e-book copy

Muslim Ethiopia : the Christian legacy, identity politics, and Islamic reformism.  Edited by Patrick Desplat and Terje Østebø.  New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Østebø,̜ Terje.  Islam, ethnicity, and conflict in Ethiopia : the Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970. E-book. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

_______. Localising Salafism : religious change among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
--See also: E-book

Pankhurst, Helen. Gender, development and identity : an Ethiopian study. Atlantic Highland, NJ : Zed Books, 1992.
--See also: E-book

Pankhurst, Richard. The Ethiopians. Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

Remapping Ethiopia : socialism & after. Edited by Wendy James [and others]. Oxford [England] : J. Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press ; Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University Press, 2002.

Reta, Meseret Chekol. The quest for press freedom : one hundred years of history of the media in Ethiopia. E-book. Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2013]

Shack, William A. The central Ethiopians Amhara, Tigrina and related peoples. E-book. London ; New York : Routledge, 2017 [1974].
--See also: Offsite print copy of 1974 edition.

_______. The Gurage : a people of the Ensete culture. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. [Originally published in 1966.]
--See also: 1966 print edition

Smith, Lahra. Making citizens in Africa : ethnicity, gender, and national identity in Ethiopia.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013].
--See also: E-book

Sorenson, John. Imagining Ethiopia : struggles for history and identity in the Horn of Africa . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1993.
--See also: E-book

The southern marches of imperial Ethiopia : essays in history and social anthropology. Edited by Donald L. Donham and Wendy James. 2nd edition. Oxford ; New York, NY : James Currey, 2001.
--See also: 1986 print edition

The state of status groups in Ethiopia : minorities between marginalization and integration. Edited by Susanne Epple. Berlin : Reimer, 2018.

Tiruneh, Andargachew. The Ethiopian revolution, 1974-1987 : a transformation from an aristocratic to a totalitarian autocracy. Cambridge ;New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Tronvoll, Kjetil. War & the politics of identity in Ethiopia : making enemies & allies in the Horn of Africa. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2009.

Tsega Endalew. Integration and peace in East Africa : a history of the Oromo nation. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Understanding contemporary Ethiopia.  Edited by Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet. London : Hurst & Company, 2015.
--See also: E-book

Yates, Brian J. The other Abyssinians : the northern Oromo and the creation of modern Ethiopia, 1855-1913. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020.

Young, John. Peasant revolution in Ethiopia : the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975-1991 /. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Zeleke, E. Centime.  Ethiopia in theory : revolution and knowledge production, 1964-2016.  Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
--See also: E-book

Kenya

Aguilar, Mario I. Being Oromo in Kenya. Trenton, N.J. ; Asmara, Eritrea : Africa World Press, c1998.

Carrier, Neil C. M.  Little Mogadishu : Eastleigh, Nairobi's global Somali hub. London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2016.

Derbyshire, Samuel F. Remembering Turkana : material histories and contemporary livelihoods in north-western Kenya. E-book. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Grayson, Catherine-Lune. Children of the camp : the lives of Somali youth raised in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. New York : Berghahn, 2017.
--See also: E-book

Horst, Cindy. Transnational nomads : how Somalis cope with refugee life in the Dadaab camps of Kenya. New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.

Jansen, Bram J. Kakuma Refugee Camp : humanitarian urbanism in Kenya's accidental city. London, UK : ZED, 2018.
--See also: E-book

Kassa, Derese G. Refugee spaces and urban citizenship in Nairobi : Africa's sanctuary city. Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
--See also: E-book

Mobile urbanity : Somali presence in urban East Africa.  Edited by Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer.   New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Rawlence, Ben. City of thorns : nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp. New York : Picador, [2016].

Schlee, Günther. Identities on the move : clanship and pastoralism in northern Kenya. Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, London ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1989.
--See also: E-book

Weitzberg, Keren.  We do not have borders : greater Somalia and the predicaments of belonging in Kenya. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2017]
--See also: E-book

Whittaker, Hannah. Insurgency and counterinsurgency in Kenya : a social history of the Shifta conflict, c. 1963-1968.  Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015].

Somalia

Abdullahi, Abdurahman. Making sense of Somali history.  London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, [2017].

———. Recovering the Somali state : the role of Islam, Islamism and transitional justice. London : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, [2017].

Ahmed, Ali Jamale. Daybreak is near : literature, clans, and the nation-state in Somalia. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, c1996.

Bradbury, Mark. Becoming Somaliland. London : Progressio ; Oxford : In association with James Currey ; Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Johannesburg : Jacana Media ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P., 2008.

Globalizing Somalia : multilateral, international, and transnational repercussions of conflict.  Edited by Emma Leonard and Gilbert Ramsay.  New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Harper, Mary. Getting Somalia wrong? : faith, war and hope in a shattered state. London : Zed Books, c2012.
--See also: E-book

Hess, Robert L. Italian colonialism in Somalia. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Hussein, Abdirizak Haji. Abdirazak Haji Hussein : my role in the foundation of the Somali nation-state, a political memoir. Edited by Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2017].

The invention of Somalia. Edited by Ali Jamale Ahmed. Lawrenceville, NJ : Red Sea Press, 1995.

Jolly, Laurent. Tirailleurs de la côte des Somalis : des mercenaires au service de la France?  Paris : Les Indes savantes, [2019].

Kapteijns, Lidwien. Clan cleansing in Somalia : the ruinous legacy of 1991. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013.

Laitin, David D.  Politics, language, and thought : the Somali experience.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.

Laitin, David D. and Said S. Samatar. Somalia : nation in search of a state. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press ; London, England : Gower, 1987.

Lewis, I. M. A modern history of the Somali : nation and state in the Horn of Africa. 4th edition. Oxford : James Currey, 2002.
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______. Saints and Somalis : popular Islam in a clan-based society.  Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press ; London : Haan Associates, 1998.

______. Understanding Somalia and Somaliland : culture, history, society. London : Hurst & Co., c2008.

Maruf, Harun. Inside al-Shabaab : the secret history of al-Qaeda’s most powerful ally. Edited by Dan Joseph, Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018].

Mending rips in the sky : options for Somali communities in the 21st Century. Edited by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford. Lawrenceville, N.J. : Red Sea Press, 1997.

Menkhaus, Kenneth John. Somalia : state collapse and the threat of terrorism. Oxford ;  New York : Oxford University Press for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2004.
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Millman, Brock. British Somaliland : an administrative history, 1920-1960.  New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Nationalism & self determination in the Horn of Africa. Edited by I.M. Lewis. London : Ithaca Press, 1983.

Njoku, Raphael Chijioke. The history of Somalia. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2013.

Notten, Michael van. The law of the Somalis : a stable foundation for economic development in the Horn of Africa. Edited by Spencer Heath MacCallum. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2005.

Phillips, Sarah.  When there was no aid : war and peace in Somaliland. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
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Prunier, Gérard. The country that does not exist : a history of Somaliland. London : Hurst & Company, 2021.

Putting the cart before the horse : contested nationalism and the crisis of the nation-state in Somalia. Edited by Abdi Kusow. Trenton, NJ : Red Sea Press, c2004.

Richards, Rebecca. Understanding statebuilding : traditional governance and the modern state in Somaliland. Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2014].
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Samatar, Abdi Ismail. Africa’s first democrats : Somalia’s Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen.   Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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Samatar, Abdi Ismail. Framing Somalia : beyond Africa's merchants of misery. Trenton : The Red Sea Press, [2022]

Samatar, Said S. Oral poetry and Somali nationalism : the case of Sayyid Maḥammad ʻAbdille Ḥasan. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Sheik-ʻAbdi, ʻAbdi. Divine madness : Moḥammed ʻAbdulle Ḥassan (1856-1920). Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books, 1993.

The Somali challenge : from catastrophe to renewal? Edited by Ahmed I. Samatar. Boulder, CO : L. Rienner, 1994.

'Stringing coral beads' : the religious poetry of Brava (c.1890-1975) : a source publication of Chimiini texts and English translations. Edited and translated by Alessandra Vianello, Lidwien Kapteijns, Mohamed Kassim. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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War and peace in Somalia : national grievances, local conflict and al-Shabaab.  Edited by Michael Keating and Matt Waldman. London : Hurst & Company, 2018.
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Sudan and South Sudan

Sudan

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Abyei : between the two Sudans. Edited by Francis Mading Deng, Luka Kuol, and Daniel J. Deng. Trenton, New Jersey : The Red Sea Press, [2020].

Anthropology of law in Muslim Sudan : land, courts and the plurality of practices. Edited by Barbara Casciarri and Mohamed A. Babiker. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
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Darfur and the crisis of governance in Sudan : a critical reader. Edited by Salah M. Hassan and Carina E. Ray. Ithaca : Cornell University Press ; [Amsterdam] : Prince Claus Fund Library, 2009.

Darfur genocide : the essential reference guide. Edited by Alexis Herr. Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2020].

Deng, Francis Mading. Customary law in the modern world : the crossfire of Sudan's war of identities. London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. 

_______. The man called Deng Majok : a biography of power, polygyny, and change. New Haven : Yale University Press, c1986.
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———. Sudan at the brink : self-determination and national unity. 1st ed. New York : Fordham University Press and The Center for International Health and Cooperation, c2010.

———. War of visions : conflict of identities in the Sudan. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1995.

Deng, Francis Mading, in collaboration with Daniel J. Deng. Bound by conflict : dilemmas of the two Sudans. New York : The Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation : The Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University, 2015.

Flint, Julie and Alex de Waal. Darfur: a new history of a long war. Rev. and updated ed. London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Forging two nations : insights on Sudan and South Sudan.  Edited by Elke Grawert. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 2013.

Hale, Sondra. Gender politics in Sudan : Islamism, socialism, and the state. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
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Idris, Amir H. Conflict and politics of identity in Sudan. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Jok, Jok Madut. Breaking Sudan : the search for peace. London : Oneworld Publications, 2017.

———. War and slavery in Sudan. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania 2001.

Land in Dar Fur : charters and related documents from the Dar Fur sultanate. Translated with an introduction by R.S. O'Fahey and M.I. Abu Salim with M.-J. Tubiana and J. Tubiana. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Lesch, Ann Mosely. The Sudan : contested national identities. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1998.
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Malwal, Bona. Sudan and South Sudan : from one to two.  Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror. New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.

Manoeli, Sebabatso C. Sudan’s “southern problem”: race, rhetoric and international relations, 1961-1991. E-book. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Miller, Catherine, F. Ireton, and I. Dalmau, eds. Land, ethnicity and political legitimacy in Eastern Sudan : Kassala and Gedaref States.  Le Caire : CEDEJ ; [Khartoum] : DSRC, 2005.

Natsios, Andrew S. Sudan, South Sudan, and Darfur : what everyone needs to know. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, c2012.

Networks of knowledge production in Sudan : identities, mobilities, and technologies. Edited by Sondra Hale and Gada Kadoda. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

An oral and documentary history of the Darfur genocide. 2 vols. [Compiled by] Samuel Totten. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger Security International, c2011.

Prunier, Gérard. Darfur : the ambiguous genocide. London : Hurst & Co. c2005.

 

South Sudan 

Collins, Robert O.  The waters of the Nile : hydropolitics and the Jonglei Canal, 1900-1988.  Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Empire and the Nuer : sources on the pacification of the Southern Sudan, 1898-1930. Edited by Douglas H. Johnson. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2016.

Hutchinson, Sharon Elaine. Nuer dilemmas : coping with money, war, and the state. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.

Idris, Amir. Race, ethnicity, and violence in South Sudan. E-book. [S.l.] : Springer International Publishing AG ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

James, Wendy. War and survival in Sudan's frontierlands: voices from the Blue Nile. E-book. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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Johnson, Douglas H. South Sudan : a new history for a new nation.  Athens : Ohio University Press, [2016].
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———. The root causes of Sudan's civil wars : old wars and new wars. Expanded 3rd edition.  Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2003.

Johnson, Hilde F. South Sudan the untold story : from independence to civil war. London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

LeRiche, Matthew and Matthew Arnold. South Sudan : from revolution to independence. New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
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Logan, Sarah, and Luka Kuol, eds. The struggle for South Sudan : challenges of security and state formation. London : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Nyaba, Peter Adwok. South Sudan : elites, ethnicity, endless wars and the stunted state. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015.

Pinaud, Clémence. War and genocide in South Sudan. E-book. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Rolandsen, Øystein H. A history of South Sudan : from slavery to independence. Edited by M. W. Daly, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

South Sudan : post-independence dilemmas. Edited by Amir Idris. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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Thomas, Edward. South Sudan : a slow liberation. London : Zed Books, 2015.

Wai, Dunstan M. Southern Sudan : the problem of national integration. Routledge, 2013. 

Willis, C. A., compiler.  The Upper Nile Province handbook : a report on peoples and government in the Southern Sudan, 1931.  Edited by Douglas H. Johnson.   Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1995.

Young, John. South Sudan’s civil war : violence, insurgency and failed peacemaking.  London : Zed Books Ltd, [2019].