{"id":1145,"date":"2017-05-18T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2024-08-25T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T17:13:53","slug":"herder-warfare-in-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whpress.co.uk\/publications\/2017\/05\/18\/herder-warfare-in-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Herder Warfare in East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Social and Spatial History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gufu Oba<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

NOMADIC HERDERS AT WAR: PEOPLE, PLACES, ENCOUNTERS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Herder Warfare in East Africa<\/em> presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long dure\u00e9 facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa. The book discusses herder warfare from the perspective of warfare ecology, highlighting the interrelations between environmental and cultural causalities \u2013 including droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars, religious wars and migrations \u2013 and the processes and consequences of war. Regional synthesis concentrates on frontiers of conflicts extending from the White Nile Basin in south Sudan \u2013 into the southern savannas of East Africa, the Great East African Rift Valley, and the northern and southern Horn of Africa \u2013 examining historical military power shifts between diverse pastoralist cultures. Case studies are set in the coastal hinterland of East Africa and the Jubaland-Wajir frontiers. Warfare combined with environmental disasters caused social-economic breakdowns and the enslavement of defeated groups. The dynamics of herder warfare changed after colonial entry, response to pastoralist resistance and slave emancipation. The book is of interest to specialist and non-specialist readers exploring pastoralism, social anthropology and warfare and conflict studies; and is suitable for introductory graduate courses in environmental and social history of warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE AUTHOR<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gufu Oba is a Professor in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway. Professor Oba is also the author of Nomads in the Shadows of Empires<\/em> (Brill, 2013) and Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: An Historical Ecology<\/em> (Routledge, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘\u2026 richly illustrated with maps and other material, which Oba uses to explain convincingly that herder wars were not merely “ragged frontal charges” but were well-coordinated, ritualized, and fought by trained and experienced combatants.’<\/p>B. Tavakolian \u2013 Choice<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘\u2026 those with an interest in the history of SouthEastern Kenya and Southern Somalia between the Juba and Tana Rivers will find it both absorbing and thought-provoking.’<\/p>Richard Waller \u2013 African Studies Review<\/a><\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘\u2026reflects a thorough examination of the rich historical work in the field, supplemented by oral histories provided by informants from the major societies concerned.’<\/p>John G. Galaxy \u2013 Nomadic Peoples<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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CONTENTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Warfare ecology. An introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART I. Regional comparative analysis of herder warfare
Chapter 1. Institutions of warfare: a comparative perspective
Chapter 2. Frontiers of warfare: a regional analysis, c. 1340\u20131893<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART II. Migration, Conquests and Enslavement
Chapter 3. Warfare footprints in coastal hinterland of East Africa, c. 1500\u20131800
Chapter 4. Hegemony, clients and trade control in coastal hinterland, c. 1640\u20131870
Chapter 5. Invasions and Conquest: the wars of Wama, c. 1830\u20131870
Chapter 6. Political ecology of a collapse: the southern Oromo, c. 1860\u20131890
Chapter 7. Enslavement of the Warda Oromo: slave family life histories, 1840\u20131890<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART III. Colonial resistance, Containment and Slave Emancipation
Chapter 8. Contesting pastoralists\u2019 military power: resistance to colonial rule, 1885\u20131918
Chapter 9. Colonial resource capture: responses to trans-frontier migrations, 1909\u20131925
Chapter 10. The containment policy: administration of grazing lines, 1909\u20131955
Chapter 11. Crossing the river: the Warda emancipation, 1890\u20131963<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion, References, Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15 May 2017, 350pp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1-874267-96-6 (HB) \u00a365<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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