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Somali History and Poetry The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600–1900. By Lee V. Cassanelli. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Pp. xvi + 311; no price stated. Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism: The Case of Sayyid Moammad Abdille asan. By Said S. Samatar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. xii + 232. £19.50.Alpers, E. A. · The Journal of African History · 1984