LEADER 06120nam 22006011 450 001 9910463429403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7983-0406-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000489889 035 $a(EBL)1561410 035 $a(OCoLC)863204234 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001153709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11659463 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001153709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11153658 035 $a(PQKB)11333491 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1561410 035 $a(OCoLC)870684318 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32717 035 $a(PPN)250537133 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1561410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10803465 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000489889 100 $a20131114d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBondage of boundaries and identity politics in postcolonial Africa $ethe 'Northern Problem' and ethno-futures /$fedited by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Brilliant Mhlanga 210 1$aPretoria, South Africa :$cAfrica Institute of South Africa,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7983-0391-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction : 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 Ylo?nen -- 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. 330 $aWhat 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 e?bondage of boundariesi? 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. 606 $aConflict management$zAfrica 606 $aPolitical violence$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConflict management 615 0$aPolitical violence 676 $a300 701 $aNdlovu-Gatsheni$b Sabelo J$0939194 701 $aMhlanga$b Brilliant$01033319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463429403321 996 $aBondage of boundaries and identity politics in postcolonial Africa$92451801 997 $aUNINA