The book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically.

• Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther SchleePreface by the EditorsState Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil HoehneMore State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje FeyissaMaking Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu AdugnaThe Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. SmidtTrans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed YasinPeople & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil HoehneThe Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric BarnesThe Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee CassanelliMagendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula WekesaCan Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca DeclichConclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham

The book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically.

• Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther SchleePreface by the EditorsState Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil HoehneMore State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje FeyissaMaking Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu AdugnaThe Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. SmidtTrans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed YasinPeople & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil HoehneThe Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric BarnesThe Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee CassanelliMagendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula WekesaCan Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca DeclichConclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham

The book bears the stamp of unmistakable originality in the nine constituent substantive essays on the various strategies by which borderland communities...explore and exploit the border in their diverse contexts and situations not just to survive but even to flourish economically, socially, culturally and politically.

• Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther SchleePreface by the EditorsState Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil HoehneMore State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje FeyissaMaking Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu AdugnaThe Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. SmidtTrans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed YasinPeople & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil HoehneThe Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric BarnesThe Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee CassanelliMagendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula WekesaCan Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca DeclichConclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham