The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay

by Christopher Clapham

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past.

Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn's peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190680180
• ISBN13: 9780190680183
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 9.1"