Country That Does Not Exist
Country That Does Not Exist The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Thus decolonization and pan-Somalism became synonymous.In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland…
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Country That Does Not Exist
The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Thus decolonization and pan-Somalism became synonymous.In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia Italiana. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers.
The collapse of parliamentary democracy in 1969 and the resulting army--and clanic--dictatorship that followed led to a civil war in the 'perfect' national state. Africa Confidential wrote at the time that the new Somali state would never be beset by tribal division but this discounted the existence of powerful clans within Somali society and the persistence of colonial administrative cultures. It lasted fourteen years in the British North and is still raging today in the 'Italian' South.Somaliland re-birthed itself through an enormous solo effort but the viable nation so recreated within its former colonial