Bandits on the Border: The Last Frontier in the Search for Somali Unity.DT407 2005-004180 1-56902-227-5 Bandits on the border; the last frontier in the search for Somali unity. Mburu, Nene Nene (nēn, nĕn) or Nen (nĕn), river, c.90 mi (140 km) long, rising in the Northampton Uplands, central England, and flowing NE past Northampton, Oundle, Peterborough, and Wisbech to the Wash. . Red Sea Press, [c]2005 263 p. $29.95 (pa) The Shifta conflict in Kenya of the 1960s involved the Somali ethnic community of the Northern Frontier Districts engaging in guerilla war in pursuit of self-determination. Mburu (Ph.D., war studies, King's College, London, UK) analyzes the conflict in the context of the geopolitics geopolitics, method of political analysis, popular in Central Europe during the first half of the 20th cent., that emphasized the role played by geography in international relations. of the Horn of Africa Horn of Africa, peninsula, NE Africa, opposite the S Arabia Peninsula. Also known as the Somali Peninsula, it encompasses Somalia and E Ethiopia and is the easternmost extension of the continent, separating the Gulf of Aden from the Indian Ocean. , arguing that the roots of the conflict lay in unfair colonial legislation that was a precursor to the disaffection of the Somali community of Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera. He describes the politics of the British administration of the NFD NFD Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy NFD No Further Details NFD Net Filter Discrimination (radio) NFD nodal fault diagnostics (US DoD) NFD Navy Fuel Depot NFD No Foreign Dissemination , the course of the guerilla war, and its place within the Cold War politics of Africa. |
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