"This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern which the authors have been exploring …
"In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror-wounding, raping, and killing-to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and souther…
This book examines the transformative violence that helped cause the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. The author argues that public acknowledgment of the clan cleansing of this period is indispensable to social and moral repair and to the critical memory work required from …
