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Challenges to the nation-state in Africa

Title: Challenges to the nation-state in Africa / edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and Liisa Laakso.
Publication: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, in cooperation with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, c1996.

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Description

213 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

Nationalism > Africa > Congresses
Ethnic groups > Government policy > Africa > Congresses
Africa > Ethnic relations > Congresses
Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses
Regionalism > Africa > Congresses
Nation-state > Congresses

Note

Seminar held in Helsinki, at the end of Jan. 1995.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The crisis of the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa / Liisa Laakso -- Changing notions of the nation-state and the African experience : Montesquieu revisited / Liisa Laakso -- The weakness of "strong states" : the case of Niger Republic / Jibrin Ibrahim -- The deepening crisis of Nigerian federalism and the future of the nation-state / Adebayo O. Olukoshi and Osita Agbu -- Ghana : violent ethno-political conflicts and the democratic challenge / E.O. Akwetey -- The nation-state project and conflict in Zimbabwe / Lloyd M. Sachikonye -- The national question in Zaire / Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba -- Christianity and Islam contending for the throne on the Tanzanian mainland / Nestor N. Luanda -- Resuscitating the Majimbo project : the politics of deconstructing the unitary state in Kenya / Mutahi Ngunyi.

Call Number

Sc E 01-61

ISBN

9171063811

LCCN

97160893

OCLC

35012416

Title

Challenges to the nation-state in Africa / edited by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and Liisa Laakso.

Imprint

Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, in cooperation with the Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, c1996.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Olukoshi, Adebayo O.

Laakso, Liisa.

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

Helsingin yliopisto. Kehitysmaainstituutti.

Research Call Number

Sc E 01-61

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