Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.

Preface by Gunther Schlee - Günther SchleePreface by the EditorsState Borders & Borderlands as Resources: An Analytical Framework - Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil HoehneMore State than the State? The Anywaa's Call for the Rigidification of the Ethio-Sudanese Border - Dereje FeyissaMaking Use of the Kin Beyond the International Border: Inter-ethnic Relations along the Ethio-Kenyan Border - Fekadu AdugnaThe Tigrinnya-speakers across the Borders: Discourses of Unity & Separation in Ethnohistorical Context - Wolbert G.C. SmidtTrans-Border Political Alliance in the Horn of Africa: The Case of the Afar-Issa Conflict - Yasin Mohammed YasinPeople & Politics along and across the Somaliland-Puntland Border - Markus Virgil HoehneThe Ethiopian-British Somaliland Boundary - Cedric BarnesThe Opportunistic Economies of the Kenya-Somali Borderland in Historical Perspective - Lee CassanelliMagendo & Survivalism: Babukusu-Bagisu Relations & Economic Ingenuity on the Kenya-Uganda Border 1962-80 - Peter Wafula WekesaCan Boundaries Not Border on One Another? The Zigula (Somali Bantu) between Somalia & Tanzania - Francesca DeclichConclusion: Putting Back the Bigger Picture - Christopher Clapham