Brothers of the Boran Once Again: On the Fading Popularity of Certain Somali Identities in Northern KenyaFootnote1

1. The material for this paper is derived from ongoing research undertaken with Abdullahi A. Shongolo, an education officer from Moyale, Kenya. We plan to publish a book, provisionally entitled ‘Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia: Observations on Somali, Oromo and Rendille’. Data from 1999 to the present have mostly been collected by Abdullahi Shongolo, and the earlier data by myself. The book will expand on the themes dealt with necessarily briefly in this paper, and will contain fuller quotations in original languages.

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