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 Conference paper |
 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Society, State and identity in African history |
| Editor: | Zewde, Bahru |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 430 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Addis Ababa |
| Publisher: | Forum for Social Studies |
| ISBN: | 9789994450251 |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | ethnic identity national identity history conference papers (form) 2007 |
| Abstract: | The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Fourth Congress of the Association of African Historians (AAH) which was held in Addis Ababa on 22-24 May 2007. Central to the discussion was the issue of identity in African history from its precolonial roots to its contemporary manifestations. The volume contains papers in English and in French, which are organized in six sections: 1) Pre-colonial identities (Bundjoko Banyata on the Bas-Kasaï, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ismaïla Ciss on the slave trade and Serer identity in Senegambia); 2) Colonialism and identity (Nicodemus Fru Awasom on the anglophone/francophone divide in Cameroon, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch on the French imperial perspective on national identity, Mumbanza Mwa Bawele on Bangala identity in colonial central Africa, Mamadou Karfa Sané and Hélène Grandhomme on the colonial vision of Senegalese Islam); 3) Conceptions of the nation-State and identity (Dereje Feyissa on Anywaa identity politics in Ethiopia, Philémon Muamba Mumbunda on ethnic conflict in urban Kasaï, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni on the politics of Ndebele identity in Zimbabwe); 4) Identity-based conflicts (Olajide O. Akanji on the case of Ife-Modakeke, Nigeria, José Mvuezolo Bazonzi on conflict in Kivu (1900-2005), Akachi Odoemene on indigene-settler relations in two Nigerian cities, Chris B.N. Ogbogbo on identity politics and resource conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta, Samuel Negash on the national identities of the Ogaden and the Ishaq clans of Ethiopia); 5) Migration and acculturation (Anusa Daimon on migrant Chewa identities in Zimbabwe, Sani Hamadou on the impact of Fulani migration on traditional architecture in north Cameroon, Lily Mafela on gender and migration in colonial Botswana); 6) Memory, history and identity (Rokhaya Fall on identity in the history of Bas Saalum, Senegal, Anselme Guezo on the ghosts of memory in Benin, Doulaye Konaté on memory and regional history in West Africa, Leslie Witz on contested histories at the end of apartheid in South Africa). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
