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.
Temas:
Social conflict > Africa..
Political violence > Africa.
Africa > Social conditions.
Africa > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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