THE GABOYE OF SOMALILAND

Foreword, by Luca Ciabarri
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Emancipation and Urbanisation: the Interlink Between the History of the Gaboye and the History of Hargeysa
Doing Research in Hargeysa
Of Margins, of Centres
The Gaboye and Somali Studies
The Structure of the Work

PART I
Who Are the Gaboye? Studying Written Sources and the Search for Conceptual Tools

1. Documenting the Subordination of the Gaboye
1.1 Written Sources on the Subordination of the Gaboye
1.2 The Review of the Written Sources of Colonial Times
1.3 The Debate About Origins
1.4 Documenting the Subordinated Groups’ Social Position Between Past and Present
2. The Academic Debate Around “Castes” in Africa
2.1 The Peregrinations of the Concept of “Caste” Across Time and Space
2.2 Past and Future Trajectories of the Concept of “Caste” Within African Studies
2.3 Renewing Comparative Dialogue

PART II
The Path of Emancipation in the Town of Hargeysa
3. The Town of Hargeysa: the Setting of the Gaboye’s Emancipation
3.1 British Written Sources: 1880s-1940
3.2 Hargeysa as the New Capital of the Protectorate: 1941-1960
3.3 Urbanisation and Social Change
4. The Gaboye’s Oral History
4.1 Representing the Past
4.2 Oral History About the Origins of Hargeysa
4.3 Oral History and Hargeysa’s First Wave of Expansion
4.4. The Gaboye’s Settlement in the Town During Colonial Times
5. The First Goboye Traditional Leader and Diya-Paying Group in Hargeysa
5.1 The British Approach to Local Institutions
5.2 Traditional Forms of Authority
5.3 The Diya-Paying Groups
5.4 The Gaboye’s Mobilisation in Hargeysa
5.5 The Changing Moral Economy of the Gaboye’s Subordination

PART III
The Dynamic Reproduction of the Gaboye’s Marginality
6. The Gaboye in Hargeysa Between Past and Present
6.1 Changing Patterns of the Gaboye’s Settlement in Hargeysa
6.2 The Story of the Neighbourhood of Dami
6.3 The Neighbourhood of Dami: Urban Spaces and the Representation
of Marginality
6.4 Urban Segregation and Economic Marginality
7. Working in the Town
7.1 The Contemporary Outline of the Gaboye’s Occupational Sectors
7.2 New Sources of Income and Socio-Economic Stratification in the Gaboye Community of Hargeysa
7.3 Shoe-Working, Barbering and Blacksmithing in Hargeysa: Past and Present
7.4 The Dynamic Picture of the Gaboye Women’s Trades in Hargeysa
7.5 Transnational Migration and the Reproduction of Economic Vulnerability
7.6 Continuities and Transformations of the Gaboye’s Occupational Segregation

Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Interviews
Images
Notes