Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and PoliticsLynne Rienner Publishers, 2004 - 279 pages This examination of the politics of ethnicity and nation-building in Africa stresses the trend towards subnationalist autonomy and away from a singular, state-centric system based on the Western model. Forrest ranges across the continent to explore a variety of subnational movements. |
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Contents
List of Maps | 1 |
The Historical Context | 25 |
The Contemporary Context | 53 |
Cultural Mosaics | 77 |
Persistent Regionalism | 105 |
Secession Achieved | 133 |
Rebelling Alone | 153 |
Leaders and Rebels | 175 |
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Aborisade activists African Studies alliance building Angola areas ascriptive assertion autonomy autonomy-seeking Basubia Biafran Bloomington Boulder Brendan O'Leary Cambridge Caprivi Caprivian Casamance Casamancian central chiefs clans Colo colonial Congo Congolese context cooperation Crawford Young Cyril Daddieh Democratization despite Dinka Diola dominated Donald Rothchild eastern economic elites Eritrean Ethiopia ethnic groups ethnoregional factions factors Gabu Guerrillas Guinea-Bissau Hausa-Fulani historical Ibid identity Igbo incorporation independence Indiana University Press instrumentalist interethnic alliance internal Irredentism John Kasai Katanga Kinshasa Kivu leadership Liberation Front linkages Luba Luba-Kasai Lunda Lynne Rienner Maasai Mafwe Managing Ethnic Conflict ment MFDC military mobilization multiethnic Namibia nation-state Nigeria northern Nuer Ogoni Oromia Oromo Ovimbundu People's Liberation political culture postcolonial precolonial rebel reflected regional Roskilde secession secessionist separatist social Somalia Somaliland South Africa southern Sudan struggle subnationalism subnationalist movements Terence Ranger territorial Tigray Tigrayan tion traditional leaders Tutsi Uganda uni-ethnic UNITA Vansina village Yoruba Zulu