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Somalia in 1975: Some Notes and Impressions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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Early this year I spent some time in Somalia with the purpose of looking for material that could contribute to a history of political ideas in twentieth century Africa; and, as it fortunately happened, I found much more than I had expected. If I was surprised at this it may have been partly because Somalia, at least in recent years, appears to have become somewhat neglected by Western scholarship. Some preliminary notes and impressions may therefore be of interest.
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Page no 19 note * I am deliberately adding no bibliography to these notes. The anthropological studies of I. M. Lewis require no advertisement, and the relevant bibliography in that context will be found in his works. For the record of Italian rule, one should obviously refer to Hess, Robert, Italian Colonialism in Somalia (University of Chicago Press, 1966)Google Scholar; but there is no comparable study of the record of the British in the north. Touval’s work on Somali nationalism is also well known, and there are a few other scattered studies. A full length political study of Somalia since the later part of the nineteenth century remains to be undertaken.
Page no 21 note * Tragically killed in an automobile crash in February 1975.
Page no 22 note * The only full and reliable books reviewing Somali ideas and events since 1969 are Pestalozza, L., Somalia, Cronaca della Rivoluzione (Dedalo Libri, Bari, Italy)Google Scholar, which goes up to November 1972, and for later developments, Petrucci, P. (forthcoming). Siad’s chief speeches are collected (though sometimes in truncated form) in My Country and My People: Selected Speeches 1969-74 (Mogadishu, June 1974)Google Scholar.