Nomads And The State In Africa

Download or read book Nomads and the State in Africa written by Victor Azarya and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the implications of state-formation or 'statelessness' on the economy of nomadic pastoralists, on their social stratification, on the extent of sedentarization and on transformations in their ethno-cultural identity. It also examines the effects of such pre-colonial changes on different groups' relative incorporation or marginalization in the colonial system and in the successor post-colonial states.