State Building and National Identity Reconstruction in the Horn of Africa

Redie Bereketeab is Associate Professor of Sociology and currently working as Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden. He has authored several books, book chapters, and journal articles. His latest publication include Self-Determination and Secession in Africa: The Post-Colonial State (ed., 2015) and Revising the Eritrean National Liberation Movement, 1961-91 (2016).

• 1. Introduction: The Challenges of State Building, State Reconstruction and National Identity Reconfiguration.- 2. Reconstructing the National State of Somalia: The Role of Traditional Institutions and Authorities.- 3. Negotiating with Somalia: Is it an Option or a Foreign Imposition?.- 4. Reconciliation and Peace-Making: The Somali National Movement and the Somaliland Experience of State Building.- 5. State Building in the Republic of South Sudan: Challenges and Aspirations.- 6. Borderlands and the Restructuring of Sudan following South Sudan’s Secession.- 7. Somalia: Reconfiguration of National Identity.- 8. Crisis of Identity in a Hybrid Polity: The Case of Somaliland.- 9. Identity formation in post-secession Sudan.- 10. National Identity Reconfiguration in South Sudan: Strength and Weaknesses.- 11. The Dynamics of National Identity-Building in South Sudan.- 12. Conclusion: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction.