Search Results - subject:"Nation and State Building"

Review: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Political History of Guinea since World War Two (2014)

Ammann, Carole - In: Africa Spectrum 50 (2015) 1, pp. 104-106

Book Review

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Review: Review of: Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights and Political Development in Eritrea, Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2014, ISBN-10: 1847010695, 223 pp. and Andebrhan Welde Giorgis, Eritrea at a Crossroads: A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope

Nur, Salih O. - In: Africa Spectrum 50 (2015) 1, pp. 99-103

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Review; Ønulf Gulbrandsen, The State and the Social: State Formation in Botswana and Its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies (2012)

Kößler, Reinhart - In: Africa Spectrum 48 (2013) 2, pp. 149-152

Book Review

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Becoming Zimbabwe or Becoming Zimbabwean: Identity, Nationalism and State-building

Mlambo, Alois S. - In: Africa Spectrum 48 (2013) 1, pp. 49-70

This lecture explores the processes of identity-making and state-building in a multi-ethnic and multiracial society recently emerging from a protracted armed struggle against racially ordered, settler-colonial domination. It explores the extent to which historical factors, such as the nature of...

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Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse

Frahm, Ole - In: Africa Spectrum 47 (2012) 1, pp. 21-49

This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped...

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Review: André du Pisani, Reinhart Kössler, and William A. Lindeke (eds.), The Long Aftermath of War: Reconciliation and Transition in Namibia (2010)

Henrichsen, Dag - In: Africa Spectrum 46 (2011) 1, pp. 121-123

Review of the edited volume: André du Pisani, Reinhart Kössler, and William A. Lindeke (eds.), The Long Aftermath of War: Reconciliation and Transition in Namibia (Freiburger Beiträge zu Entwicklung und Politik, 37), Freiburg: Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut, 2010, ISBN 978-3-928597-55-5, 437 pp.

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Beyond Polarity: Negotiating a Hybrid State in Somaliland

Walls, Michael; Kibble, Steve - In: Africa Spectrum 45 (2010) 1, pp. 31-56

Many African states struggle to reconcile traditional social institutions with the precepts of nation-state democracy within colonially defined borders. Since the 1991 fall of the dictatorial Somali regime of Siyaad Barre, Somaliland has gradually pieced together what appear to be a durable...

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