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Informal laws and state law in the horn of Africa
2019
This essay examines the relationship existing between informal law and state laws in the four countries of the Horn of Africa from an historical and comparative perspective. Such relation is considered from the time when the four countries became independent, however reference is also made from time to time to the colonial background when necessary to justify a particular situation. The analysis casts also an eye to the relation existing between religious laws and state laws, as religious laws represent an essential component in the interaction between state laws and the other normative orders present in these four countries. The essay concludes with some recommendations for the improvement…
Araliaceae
2000
Family Araliaceae is represented in Somalia by a single genus, Cussonia, including two species. A description of the species and ecological and distributive data are furnished.
Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis
1993
The family Capparaceae is represented in Somalia by various genera. Among these the genus Boscia includes 6 species, the genus Cadaba includes 10 species, and the genus Capparis 4 species. A description and key are furnished for the genera. For each species the description, ecology and distribution are reported.
Recherches sur la pluviométrie de la corne orientale de l'Afrique
1991
The Eastern Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya) exhibits strong rainfall anomalies, considering the latitudinal position of the region. The mean annual rainfall map shows a vigorous meridian contrast between the rainy Western Highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia, and the deficiency of the lowlands of Somalia, the Eastern parts of Kenya and Ethiopia, and the Red Sea coast. This opposition is mainly related to the northern summer season, during which the different caracteristics of the wet "west-african" monsoon and the dry divergent "indian" monsoon are clearly emphasized. They induce single-maximum summer rainfall regimes, and double-peak spring and autumn regimes, respectivel…
Somali Contract Law: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives
2019
The essay frames the rules on contract law in Somalia in the constitutional framework. The essay compares Somali contract law with the systems provided for in other Islamic African countries, and pays particular attention to the development of Somalia as a federal state and its implications for the rules on contract law.
Floristic affinities between the somali and the mediterranean regions
1988
The phytogeographical connections between Somalia and the Mediterranean Region were analyzed. 99 families and about 300 genera turned out to be common to the two areas, representing 67 per cent of the families and 32 per cent of the genera in the whole Somali flora. If considering only the flora of the northern portion of Somalia, these values respectively reach 76 per cent of the families and 40 per cent of the genera. Furthermore several species are common to the two areas, some showing continuous distribution between eastern Africa and the Mediterranean Region, while others have strongly disjunct distribution.
Ulmaceae
2000
Family Ulmaceae is represented in Somalia by two genera, i.e. Celtis including two species, and Trema including one species. A description of the species and ecological and distributive data are furnished.
STATE BUILDING, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, AND THE MAKING OF A FRONTIER REGIME IN NORTHEASTERN ETHIOPIA, c. 1944–75
2016
AbstractCombining a set of grey literature and primary sources, this article analyses the rise and fall of the sultanate of Awsa, northeastern Ethiopia, between 1944 and 1975. Ali Mirah exploited the typical repertoires of a frontier regime to consolidate a semi-independent Muslim chiefdom at the fringes of the Christian empire of Ethiopia. Foreign investors in commercial agriculture provided the sultanate and its counterparts within the Ethiopian state with tangible and intangible resources that shaped the quest for statecraft in the Lower Awash Valley.
Postcolonial Intersections: Transnational Women Voices from Minor Italy
2017
The rising corpus of Italian postcolonial literature, mainly by women writers originally from the Horn of Africa, is urging Italian letters to engage with other contemporary transnational productions, thus challenging the notion of national canons and vertical power relations, in favor of a writing seeking for horizontal, minor connections unmediated by the center, as suggested by Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, whose work on Minor Transnationalism draws from Deleuze & Guattari and Edouard Glissant. As a case of point, the article offers a reflection on Ubax Cristina Ali Farah's narratives and their use of language.