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13 - African Nationalisms

from Part I - Imperial and Postcolonial Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

By
Emma Hunter
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

In the early twenty-first century, nations across Africa celebrated their fiftieth birthdays. The symbols employed to mark the occasion and the memories evoked bore witness to the joys as well as the trials and tribulations of a fifty-year history. For many, fifty years of independent nationhood was an occasion for celebration.1 But at the same time, the history of nationalism and nationhood is not purely a celebratory story. The politics of the early twenty-first century, in African countries as elsewhere in the world, served as a reminder that modern nationalism also has a dark side, and that violence and dispossession can follow when dynamics of inclusion and exclusion are drawn along national lines.

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Africaanti-colonialismnationalismpost-colonial statespolitical belonging
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 280 - 299
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Askew, Kelly, Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Brennan, James, Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania (Athens, OH; Ohio University Press, 2011).Google Scholar
Dorman, Sara, Hammett, Daniel, and Nugent, Paul, Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa (Leiden: Brill, 2007).Google Scholar
Falola, Toyin, Nationalism and African Intellectuals (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001).Google Scholar
Fuller, Harcourt, Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).Google Scholar
Larmer, Miles, and Lecocq, Baz, “Historicizing Nationalism in Africa,” Nations and Nationalism, 24/4 (2018), 893–917.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malkki, Lisa, Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Moorman, Marissa, Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2008).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Beurden, Sarah, Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015).Google Scholar

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