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.
Dereje Feyissa, Markus Virgil Hoehne
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