Nation-building in Africa
Author | : Arnold Rivkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arnold Rivkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Godfrey Mwakikagile |
Publisher | : New Africa Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9987160395 |
This is a study of statecraft and nation building in Africa in the post-colonial era. Subjects covered include early years of independence, state legitimacy, constitutional primacy, institutional transformation, autocracy, quest for democracy, national integration, consolidation of the state, and others. It focuses on case studies whose relevance is continental in scope.
Author | : Dominic Thomas |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253109545 |
What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy in the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, among others, Thomas highlights writers intimately involved with government and politics -- whether in support of the state's vision or with the intention of articulating a more open view of citizens and society. Focusing on themes such as collaboration, reconciliation, identity, history, and memory, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader understanding of the circumstances of African colonization, modern African nation-state formation, and the complex cultural dynamics at work in Africa since independence.
Author | : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Carolyn Holmes |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472127179 |
Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.
Author | : Mélanie Torrent |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857732358 |
Cameroon stands as a remarkable example of nation-building in the aftermath of European domination. Split between the French and British empires after World War I, it experienced a unique drive for self-determination at the turn of the 1960s, culminating in both independence from European power and the re-unification of two of its divided territories. This book investigates the influence of foreign policy on nation-building in West Africa in the context of both the Cold War and European integration. Shedding fresh light on the challenges of bridging the political, economic and linguistic divide that France and Britain had left, Melanie Torrent explores the evolution of a nation, charting both Cameroon's importance in Franco-British relations and Cameroon's use of bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in asserting its independence. This work should be essential reading for students of African studies, International Relations and the post-colonial world.
Author | : E. A. Boateng |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Africa |
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Author | : Redie Bereketeab |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 331939892X |
This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. It explores two intimately linked, yet analytically distinct themes: state building and national identity reconstruction following secession and collapse. In Somaliland and South Sudan, rearranging the state requires a complete metamorphosis of state institutions so that they respond to the needs and interests of the people. In Sudan and Somalia, the reconfiguration of the remains of the state must address a new reality and demands on the ground. All four cases examined, although highly variable, involve conflict. Conflict defines the scope, depth and momentum of the state building and state reconstruction process. It also determines the contours and parameters of the projects to reconstitute national identity and rebuild a nation. Addressing the contested identity formation and its direct relation to state building would therefore go a long way in mitigating conflicts and state crisis.
Author | : Kwame Agyei Akoto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781732179004 |