Title: Bandits on the border : the last frontier in the search for Somali unity /
Authors: Mburu, Nene.
Publisher: Red Sea Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Secession Somalia History; Somalia History; Somalia Boundaries Kenya.; Kenya Boundaries Somalia.
Contents: Introduction -- The imperial partition -- British administration of the NFD, 1900-63 -- Self-determination : the Somali question -- The NFD : civil disobedience, 1960-63 -- The Bandit War 1963-68 -- Somalia's unsustainable irredentism -- Shifta War : a pawn to check Sino-Soviet influence in the Horn of Africa -- The Shifta in the context of African secessionist conflicts -- The final frontier in the search for order in the post-cold war Horn of Africa.