Conflict and Change in the Horn of Africa

About the Book

The Horn of Africa consists of five nations with unique historical experiences from lofty and distinguishing to awful and tarnishing. North-East Africa is a region shaped by history from migrations and invasions to modern global politics and internal dynamics of historical ethnic and religious sectarian divisions. Aside Ethiopia, the other nations of Africa’s horn have been significantly shaped by the delineation of boundaries by Islamic and later European empires. That has defined its political and economic antecedents. Its location as a regional nexus to inevitable trade routes between three continents had made concerns by world powers over its affairs to endure. This historical account concentrates on the 20th century political and economic challenges that had characterized individual nations in the region to the new millennium. Their quite spectacular and thought provoking internal and external legacies while transforming national live also remain enduring in certain aspects.

About the Author

Odi Arinze Robert Moghalu was born in the besieged breakaway republic of Biafra in 1967 in a post-pogrom, blockade-induced famine and devastating starvation in a vicious genocidal war that cost 2 million Biafran lives , the worst in Africa's multifarious twentieth century conflicts in both scale and severity. Mr. Moghalu worked in Nigeria as a journalist and human rights activist and in the United States as an educator.