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Title:Nationalism and Territoriality in Barue and Mozambique: Independence, Belonging, Contradiction
Author:Dokkum, André vanISNI
Year:2020
Issue:39
Pages:272
Language:English
Series:Afrika-Studiecentrum series (ISSN 1570-9310)
City of publisher:Leiden
Publisher:Brill
ISBN:9789004428416; 9789004428638
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subject:nationalism
External link:https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3563863
Abstract:Nationalism, as an ideology coupling self-conscious peoples to fixed territories, is often seen as emerging from European historical developments, also in postcolonial countries outside Europe. André van Dokkum's Nationalism and Territoriality in Barue and Mozambique shows that this view is not universally true. The precolonial Kingdom of Barue in what is now Mozambique showed characteristics generally associated with nationalism, giving the country great resilience against colonial encroachment. Postcolonial Mozambique, on the other hand, has so far not succeeded in creating national coherence. The former anti-colonial organization and now party in power Frelimo has always stressed national unity, but only under its own guidance, paradoxically producing disunity.
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