PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia Margaret K. McElderry Books a world-weary grandmother becomes the

a world-weary grandmother becomes the guardian of her two street-wise grandchildren -- but their demented

Publisher : Curbside Splendor Publishing

Paperback: 384 pages

Publisher : Africa World Pr (February 1

PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE: Inverted Nationalism and the Crisis of Identity in Somalia Margaret K. McElderry Books a world-weary grandmother becomes theThis book represents an attempt to introduce the notion of contested national identity as a theoretical framework for understanding the crisis of the nation state in Africa, and Somalia in particular. The contributors to the volume share the perspective that one of the principal variables that inform much of the present crisis in Somalia resulted from the simultaneous co existence of two paradigms narratives (lineage based versus territorial) of