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Title:Some Reflections on the Post-Colonial State in Portuguese-Speaking Africa
Author:Chabal, PatrickISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Africa Insight
Volume:23
Issue:3
Pages:129-135
Language:English
Geographic terms:Portuguese-speaking Africa
Angola
Mozambique
Guinea-Bissau
Cape Verde
Congo (Republic of)
Subjects:State
Politics and Government
colonialism
History and Exploration
Women's Issues
Abstract:The author raises two distinct but interrelated questions which lie at the heart of the analysis of the contemporary politics of Portuguese-speaking Africa. First, what is the analytical relationship between understanding the postcolonial African State and understanding postcolonial politics in Africa? Second, how historically different is the postcolonial State in Portuguese-speaking Africa from the postcolonial State in Africa generally? In the first two sections of this article the author reflects on why the history of Portuguese Africa and of Portuguese decolonization has so often been confined to a discussion of its lusophone specificate. In the third part, he reconsiders the question of how best to study the State in postcolonial Portuguese-speaking Africa. The last section is a more general argument in favour of the reinterpretation of postcolonial politics in Africa. Notes, ref.
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