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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
- Description
- 352 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Mayibuye history and literature series ; no. 95
- Uniform Title
- Mayibuye history & literature series ; no. 95.
- Subjects
- Democracy > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
- Cultural pluralism > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
- Politics and culture > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
- Ethnicity > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Congresses
- Nationalism > 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. 95Mayibuye 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 01-1357JFD 02-12975