Northeast African Studies 15 No 1

IN THIS ISSUE Articles Fikru Negash Gebrekidan, "Ethiopia in Black Studies from W. E. B. Du Bois to Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Hugo Ferran, "The Musical Expression of Identity in Maale Patrilineal Society (Southern Ethiopia)" Carolina De Rosis, "The Organization of the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia: Rallying around Afflictions" Kevin K. Frank, "Ripeness and the 2008 Djibouti-Eritrea Border Dispute" Virginia Luling, Anita S. Adam, "Continuities and Changes: Marriage in Southern Somalia and the Diaspora" InMemoriam Mohamed Haji Mukhtar, "A Remembrance of Salah Mohamed Ali and Aw Jama Umar Isse: The Passing of a Generation in Somali Studies" Forum Messay Kebede, "The Ethiopian Student Movement: A Rejoinder to Bahru Zewde's The Quest for Socialist Utopia" Bahru Zewde, "Response to Messay Kebede's Rejoinder" Book Reviews Localising Salafism: Religious Change among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia, by Terje Østebo, reviewed by Haggai Erlich The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anticolonial War, by Gebreyesus Hailu, translated by Ghirmai Negash, reviewed by Carmela Garritano British Somaliland: An Administrative History, 1920-1960, by Brock Millman, reviewed by Lidwien Kapteijns Regional Integration, Identity, and Citizenship in the Greater Horn of Africa, edited by Kidane Mengisteab and Redie Bereketeab, reviewed by Joseph L. Venosa

IN THIS ISSUE Articles Enrico Ille, "The Nuba Mountains between Coercion and Persuasion during Mahdist Rule (1881-98)" Meron Zeleke, "Cosmopolitan Youth Religious Movements in Ethiopia: Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahədo Youth as Vanguard and Self-Appointed Masters of Ceremony" Antonio M. Morone, "The Unsettled Southern Ethiopian- Somali Boundary on the Eve of Decolonization: Political Confrontation and Human Interactions in the Ogaadeen Borderland" Hannah Whittaker, "A New Model Village? Nairobi Development and the Somali Question in Kenya, c. 1915-17" In Memoriam Faisal Roble, "Remembering Said S. Samatar" Book Review Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability, by Elisabeth McMahon, reviewed by Chris Conte

In This Issue Articles The Exaltation of Holy Cross and the Deposition of the Emperor of Ethiopia: Ləj Iyasu a Mäsqäl Drama | Steven Kaplan Individual and Institutional Drivers of Inequality in Rural Agricultural Contexts: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia | Logan Cochrane and Alec Thornton Revisions of the Past, between Architectural and Political Form: The Memory of the Old Parliament Building in Mogadishu | Haroon Q. Mohamoud Hunter in Somaliland: Consul Frederick M. Hunter and the Creation of the British Somaliland Protectorate | James Fargher Book Reviews The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics, by Terrence Lyons | Jan Erk Modernist Art in Ethiopia, by Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis| Dagmawi Woubshet Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia, by Miriam Driessen | Liang Chen Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia, by Daniel Mains | Aaron Tesfaye

IN THIS ISSUE From the Editor Articles Stefano Bellucci, "The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution at 40: Social, Economic, and Political Legacies" Berthold Unfried, "Friendship and Education, Coffee and Weapons: Exchanges between Socialist Ethiopia and the German Democratic Republic" Abera Yemane-ab, "'Land to the Tiller': Unrealized Agenda of the Revolution" Samuel Andreas Admasie, "Historicizing Contemporary Growth: The Ethiopian Revolution, Social-Structural Transformation, and Capitalist Development" John Markakis, "The Revolution and the Scholars" Elleni Centime Zeleke, "When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Reading the Ethiopian Federal Elections of 2005 through the Ethiopian Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s" Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Linda Herrera, "On Silencing the Next Generation: Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution on Youth Political Engagement" Bitania Tadesse, "Revolutionary Ethiopia through the Lens of the Contemporary Film Industry" Kiflu Tadesse, "Some Thoughts about the Ethiopian Left"