Chapter 1 The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective, Asafa Jalata; Chapter 2 The Racialised and Islamicised Sudanese State and the Question of Southern Sudan, Amir Idris; Chapter 3 Global Capitalism and the Oromo Liberation Struggle, William I Robinson; Chapter 4 Two National Liberation Movements Compared, Asafa Jalata; Chapter 5 The Oromo Gada System of Government, Lemmu Baissa; Chapter 6 Contending Democracies, Bonnie K Holcomb; Chapter 7, Seyoum Yunkura Hameso; Chapter 8 Globalisation and Africa, Alice Bettis Hashim; Chapter 9 What Next in the Horn of Africa?, Leenco Lata;
Asafa Jalata is Associate Professor of Sociology, global studies, and African and African American Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Oromia & Ethiopia (1993) and Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements (2001), and the editor of Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom & Democracy (1998).