Bandits On The Border : The Last Frontier in the Search for Somali Unity

The Shifta conflict in Kenya of the 1960s involved the Somali ethnic community of the Northern Frontier Districts engaging in guerilla war in pursuit of self-determination. Mburu (Ph.D., war studies, King's College, London, UK) analyzes the conflict in the context of the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa, arguing that the roots of the conflict lay