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Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa : The ëNorthern Problemí and Ethno-Futures /

What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in postcolonial Africa? What has been the long-term impact of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 on African unity and African statehood? Why is postcolonial Africa haunted by various ethno national conflicts? Is secessio...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mhlanga, Brilliant (author of introduction,), Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. (author of introduction,)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : borders, identities, the 'northern problem' and ethno-futures in postcolonial Africa / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Brilliant Mhlanga -- Space, boundaries and the countours of the 'northern problem' -- Space matters : rethinking spatiality in discourses of colonial and postcolonial 'boundaries' / Kudzai Matereke -- Africa in search of (in)security : beyond the bondage of boundaries / Eric George and Nazar Hilal -- State-building, conflict and global war on terror in the Horn of Africa / Redie Bereketeab -- The burden of 'national languages' and the bondages of linguistic boundaries in postcolonial Africa / Finex Ndhlovu -- Autochthons, minorities and politics of secession -- 'Northern problem' : postcolony, identity and political [in]stability in Cote d'Ivoire and Togo / Kwesi Aning and Naila Salihu -- Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni struggle and the logic of spectacle / Austin Tam-George -- The state and the 'southern problem' in Sudan : marginalisation, self-determination and secessionism / Aleksi Ylönen -- The Anglophone problem and the secession option in Cameroon / Eric Ebolo Elong -- Manumission from black-on-black colonialism : sovereign statehood for the British Southern Cameroons / Carlson Anyangwe -- Migration, conflict, citizenship and violence -- A quest for belonging : migration, identities and the politics of belonging in Africa / Joseph Mujere -- 'Discipline and disengagement' : cross-border migration and the quest for identity among the Ndebele of South-western Zimbabwe / Vusilizwe Thebe -- Homo sacer : citizenship, exclusion and irregular labour migration from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, to South Africa / France Maphosa -- Colonialism, postcolonial violence and repression : reflections on the northern question in Uganda / Fredrick Kisekka-Ntale -- Ethnicity, conflicts, and the rise of militia groups in Nigeria / Godwin A. Vaaseh -- Territorial nationalism, regionalism and pan-Africanism -- The betrayal of liberation : on the limits to emancipation under post-liberation governments in Southern African post-settler societies / Henning Melber -- Sovereignty, self-determination and the challenges of nation building in contemporary Africa / Olayode Kehinde Olusola -- The 'northern problem' : is pan-Africanism or regionalism the answer? / John Akokpari, Claire Price & Kristen Thompson -- Pan-Africanism and African regional economic integration / Michael. O. Bonchuk -- References -- Notes. 
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520 |a What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in postcolonial Africa? What has been the long-term impact of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 on African unity and African statehood? Why is postcolonial Africa haunted by various ethno national conflicts? Is secession and irredentism the solution? Can we talk of ethno-futures for Africa? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this important book addresses. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Brilliant Mhlanga's book introduces the metaphor of the 'northern problem' to dramatise the fact that there is no major African postcolonial state that does not enclose within its borders a disgruntled minority that is complaining of marginalization, domination and suppression. The irony is that in 1963 at the formation of the OAU, postcolonial African leaders embraced the boundaries arbitrarily drawn by European colonialists and institutionalised the principle of inviolability of ëbondage of boundariesí thereby contributing to the problem of ethno-national conflicts. The successful struggle for independence of the Eritrean people and the secession of South Sudan in 2011 have encouraged other dominated and marginalised groups throughout Africa to view secession as an option. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Mhlanga successfully assembled competent African scholars to deal exhaustively with various empirical cases of ethno-national conflicts throughout the African continent as well as engaging with such pertinent issues as Pan-Africanism as a panacea to these problems. This important book delves deeper into complex issues of space, languages, conflict, security, nation-building, war on terror, secession, migration, citizenship, militias, liberation, violence and Pan-Africanism. 
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