This book represents a collective effort by ten social scientists with long experience in the Horn of Africa to portray the marginalisation and deprivation of the pastoralist population in that region.

List of Maps, Figures and tables - Notes on Contributors - Preface to the 1995 reprint - Preface - Map: Modes of Production in the Horn of Africa - Introduction: The Decline of Pastoralism and Political Conflict in the Horn of Africa; J.Markakis - Pastoralists and the War in Southern Sudan: The Ngok Dinka/Humr Conflict in South Kordofan; M.A.M.Salih - Pastoral Decline and Famine: The Beja Case; J.Morton - The Decline of Afar Pastoralism; M.Gamaledin - Continuity and Change among the Boran in Ethiopia; R.Hogg - The State, the Market, and the Decline of Pastoralism: Challenging some Myths, with Evidence from Western Pokot in Kenya/Uganda; T.Dietz - Pasture and Polis: The Roots of Political Marginalization of Somali Pastoralism; M.Doornbos - State Formation and the Decline of Pastoralism: The Fulani in Central Mali; M.de Bruign & H.van Dijk - The 'New' East African Pastoralist: An Overview; P.T.W.Baxter - Index