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Making nations, creating strangers : states and citizenship in Africa / edited by Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, Paul Nugent.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- African social studies series ; v. 16.
- African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Africa--Social conditions--1960-.
- Social conditions.
- Citizenship--Africa.
- Nation-state.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 277 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book explores the instrumental manipulation of citizenship and narrowing definitions of national-belonging which refract political struggles in Zimbabwe, Cote dIvoire, Cameroon, Somalia, Tanzania, and South Africa, where conflicts are legitimated through claims of exclusionary nationhood and redefinitions of citizenship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004157903
- 9004157905
- OCLC:
- 153293825
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