Citizenship, belonging, and political community in Africa dialogues between past and present

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hunter, Emma, 1980- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press 2016.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cambridge Centre of African Studies series.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Unhelpful pasts and a provisional present / John Lonsdale
  • Rethinking citizenship and subjecthood in southern Africa : Khoesan, labor relations and the colonial state in the Cape of Good Hope (c. 1652/1815) / Nicole Ulrich
  • "We are oppressed and our only way is to write to higher authority" : the politics of claim and complaint in the peripheries of condominium Sudan / Cherry Leonardi and Chris Vaughan
  • Burundi, 1960/67 : loyal subjects and obedient citizens / Aidan Russell
  • "Double nationalité" and its discontents in Cóte d'Ivoire, 1963/66 / Henri-Michel Yéré
  • The Nubians of Kenya : citizenship in the gaps and margins / Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
  • Divided loyalties and contested identities : citizenship in colonial Mauritius / Ramola Ramtohul
  • The ethnic language of rights and the Nigerian political community / V. Adefemi Isumonah
  • The state and the "peoples" : citizenship and the future of political community in Ethiopia / Solomon M. Gofie
  • Ethnicity and contested citizenship in Africa / Eghosa E. Osaghae.