Interethnische Beziehungen und Kolonialismus in Somalia / von Martina Isabella Steiner

• VerfasserIn: Steiner, Martina I.
• Place / Publishing House: 1991
• Year of Publication: 1991
• Language: German
• Physical Description: III, 393 Bl.

eng: The subject of the thesis is the inter-ethnic relationship between the different ethnic groups before the period of European colonisation. Dealing with this period it was above all important to investigate the arabic influence and their economic domination. Therefore the first colonial rule was imposed by the arabs. They gave the first impulses for the centralisation of political power, the founding of coastal towns, the monetarisation of the economy as well as the islamisation of the ethnic groups living in the southern parts of Somalia. The ecological and economic conditions extremely hard for subsistence production of the different socio-economic groups resulted not only in different economic systems but also in different kinds of social and political life and organisation. The economic survival of the ethnic groups was guaranteed by their fusion, which was characterized by the relative autonomy of each group. At the end of the 19th century the British colonisation started in the north of Somalia, while the Italian colonial rule was established in the eastern part and the south at almost the same time. The analysis of the colonial system together with the effects on the Somalian people is at the center of the second part of the thesis.