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National identity and democracy in Africa

Title
National identity and democracy in Africa / edited by Mai Palmberg.
Publication
[Pretoria, S.A.] : Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa ; [Bellville, S.A.] : Mayibuye Centre at the University of the Western Cape ; [Uppsala] : Nordic Africa Institute, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Palmberg, Mai.
  • Human Sciences Research Council.
  • University of the Western Cape. Mayibuye Centre.
Description
352 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Mayibuye history and literature series ; no. 95
Uniform Title
Mayibuye history & literature series ; no. 95.
Subject
  • Nationalism > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  • Democracy > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  • Ethnicity > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  • Cultural pluralism > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  • Politics and culture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses
Note
  • Selected, rev. versions of papers presented at a conference entitled the National Identity and Democracy" held at the University of the Western Cape, Mar. 14-16, 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-349).
Contents
History, the arts and the problem of national identity / Kimani Gecau -- How the national became popular in Tanzania / Siri Lange -- National landscape a cultural European invention / Svend Erik Larsen -- Question of identity during the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) in the fiction of Flora Nwapa and Ken Saro-Wiwa / Raisa Simola -- Language of Africa-centered knowledge in South Africa / Ousseina Alidou and Alamin Mazrui -- War and the negotiation of gendered identities in Angola / Horace Campbell -- Conceptualising coloured identities in the Western Cape province of South Africa / Zimitri Erasmus and Edgar Pieterse -- Intimate transformations / Maria Olaussen -- From masters to minorities : the Swedish-speaking finns and the Afrikaans whites / Mai Palmberg -- Nation-building discourse in a democracy / Brendan P. Boyce -- Notion of nation and the practice of nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa / Gerhard Maré -- Do diverse social identities inhibit nationhood and democracy? Initial considerations from South Africa / Robert Mattes -- Strangers at the cattle post : state nationalism and migrant identity in post-apartheid South Africa / Michael Neocosmos -- Advancing non-racialism in post-apartheid South Africa / Rupert Taylor.
Call Number
Sc D 01-1357
ISBN
  • 0796919011 (Human Sciences Research Council)
  • 9171064419 (Nordic Africa Institute)
  • 9171064532 (Nordic Africa Institute)
LCCN
00395237
OCLC
43833733
Title
National identity and democracy in Africa / edited by Mai Palmberg.
Imprint
[Pretoria, S.A.] : Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa ; [Bellville, S.A.] : Mayibuye Centre at the University of the Western Cape ; [Uppsala] : Nordic Africa Institute, 1999.
Series
Mayibuye history and literature series ; no. 95
Mayibuye history & literature series ; no. 95.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-349).
Added Author
Palmberg, Mai.
Human Sciences Research Council.
University of the Western Cape. Mayibuye Centre.
Research Call Number
Sc D 01-1357
JFD 02-12975
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