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Title: | Local stories, global discussions: websites, politics and identity in African contexts |
Editors: | Brinkman, Inge Lamoureaux, Siri Merolla, Daniela Bruijn, Mirjam de |
Book title: | Popular media, democracy and development in Africa |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 236-252 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Central Africa Cameroon Morocco Sudan |
Subjects: | ethnic identity websites Berber Kongo Nuba English language group identity |
Abstract: | This chapter compares websites related to regions in Africa emphasizing ethnic or regional identity as politically important. In particular it compares four cases: websites relating to the Berber context in Morocco, websites that stress 'Kongo' (central Africa) and 'Nuba' (Sudan) identities, and websites produced by people from English-speaking Cameroon. In all four cases, interrelations between marginality and mobility have directly informed the patterns of identity construction and political engagement in the local and (inter)national contexts. A discussion of marginality and mobility is followed by an outline of the various ways in which identity is represented on the different websites. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |