Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; The process of state formation in the Horn of Africa in comparative perspective; The racialised and Islamicised Sudanese State and the question of Southern Sudan; Global capitalism and the Oromo liberation struggle: theoretical notes on US policy towards the Ethiopian empire; Two national liberation movements compared: Oromia and Southern Sudan; The Oromo Gada system of government: an indigenous African democracy; Contending democracies: US-sponsored 'democracy' encounters indigenous Oromo democratic forms
Summary
This book demonstrates that the crises of the Horn states stem from their political behaviour and structural forces
