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| Title: | Côte d'Ivoire: Patriotism, Ethnonationalism and Other African Modes of Self-Writing |
| Author: | Banégas, Richard |
| Year: | 2006 |
| Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
| Volume: | 105 |
| Issue: | 421 |
| Period: | October |
| Pages: | 535-552 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire |
| Subjects: | nationalism citizenship political conflicts Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876763 |
| Abstract: | One of the key elements in the political-military struggle that has wracked Côte d'Ivoire since 2002 has been the southern 'patriots', youthful supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo who claim to be struggling for the country's 'second independence' from the former colonial power, France, and against immigration from neighbouring countries. Many of them conceive of their struggle not just as a political one but as a search for social affirmation. This article examines the politics of Ivorian 'patriotic' youth in the light of Achille Mbembe's influential ideas on African modes of self-representation. It investigates both the historicity and the novelty of this ultranationalist mobilization. It argues that what is at stake in Côte d'Ivoire's war of rival patriotisms is the redefinition of the contours of the political community as well as the content and modes of citizenship. It is a conflict about the rights - political, economic, educational, cultural, matrimonial, concerning property - that are conferred by possession of a national identity document. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
