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Title:A Theory of an Africa as a Unification Nation: A Re-Thinking of the Structural Transformation of Africa
Author:Muchie, MammoISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:8
Issue:2
Pages:136-157
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:pan-Africanism
nationalism
Inter-African Relations
international relations
African cooperation
imperialism
Africans
African Union
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487452
Abstract:Africans can stay as isolated leaves outside the forest and face the music of their historical oppression under the variety of guises it takes, or join the dense tropical forest that symbolizes African unity in order to hide and protect themselves inside a liberated Africa - a unification-nation founded on a radical pan-Africanist historical imagination. The present author's aim is to develop a conceptual framework for the unification-nation option. He outlines the background to the African national project, the historical roots of the resurgence of pan-Africanism, the relationship between the making of (a united) Africa and the making of the (free) African, and the possible role of the AU and NEPAD. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the need for the African scholarly community to pursue cooperation and unification. Bibliogr., ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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