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This book compromises 26 well-researched essays in honour of Professor Verkijika G. Fanso, who retired in 2011 after over 36 years of distinguished service at universities in Cameroon. Contributors include colleagues, former students and close collaborators in Cameroon and beyond. Contributions cover a wide range of issues related to the contested histories, politics and practices of boundaries and frontiers in Africa. These are themes on which Fanso has researched, published and taught extensively, and earned international recognition as a leading scholar. The book explores, inter alia, indigenous and endogenous practices of boundary making in Africa; as well as colonial and contemporary traditions, practices and conflicts on and around frontiers. In particular focus, are disputed colonial boundaries between Cameroon and its neighbours. Issues of intra- and inter-disciplinary frontiers, politics and cultures are also addressed. The volume is crowned by a farewell valedictory lecture by Fanso. Like Fanso and his rich repertoire of publications, this bumper harvest of essays is without doubt, truly immortalising.

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Publié par	Langaa RPCIG
Date de parution	26 août 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789956791149
Langue	English
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Bondage of Boundaries
and Identity Politics
in Postcolonial Africa:
The ‘Northern Problem’
and Ethno-Futures
Edited by
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
and Brilliant MhlangaFirst published in 2013 by
Africa Institute of South Africa
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ISBN: 978-0-7983-0391-0
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our website at http://www.ai.org.zaTable of contents
Acknowledgements v
Notes on contributors vi
Introduction: Borders, identities, the ‘northern problem’ and ethno-futures in 1
postcolonial Africa
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Brilliant Mhlanga
PART 1: SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND COUNTOURS OF THE ‘NORTHERN PROBLEM’
1 Space matters: Rethinking spatiality in discourses of colonial and postcolonial 24
‘boundaries’
Kudzai Matereke
2 Africa in search of (in)security: Beyond the bondage of boundaries 45
Eric George and Nazar Hilal
3 State-building, confict and global war on terror in the Horn of Africa 61
Redie Bereketeab
4 The burden of ‘national languages’ and the bondages of linguistic boundaries 79
in postcolonial Africa
Finex Ndhlovu
PART 2: AUTOCHTHONS, MINORITIES AND POLITICS OF SECESSION
5 ‘Northern problem’: Postcolony, identity and political [in]stability in Cote d’Ivoire 100
and Togo
Kwesi Aning and Naila Salihu
6 Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni struggle and the logic of spectacle 117
Austin Tam-George
7 The State and the ‘southern problem’ in Sudan: Marginalisation, self-determination 130
and secessionism
Aleksi Ylönen
8 The Anglophone problem and the secession option in Cameroon 148
Eric Ebolo Elong
9 Manumission from black-on-black colonialism: Sovereign statehood for the 163
British Southern Cameroons
Carlson Anyangwe iiiiiiPART 3: MIGRATION, CONFLICT, CITIZENSHIP AND VIOLENCE
10 A quest for belonging: Migration, identities and the politics of belonging in 186
Africa
Joseph Mujere
11 ‘Discipline and disengagement’: Cross-border migration and the quest for identity 205
among the Ndebele of South-western Zimbabwe
Vusilizwe Thebe
12 Homo sacer: Citizenship, exclusion and irregular labour migration from 222
Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, to South Africa
France Maphosa
13 Colonialism, postcolonial violence and repression: Refections on the northern 237
question in Uganda
Fredrick Kisekka-Ntale
14 Ethnicity, conficts, and the rise of militia groups in Nigeria 257
Godwin A.Vaaseh
PART 4: TERRITORIAL NATIONALISM, REGIONALISM AND PAN-AFRICANISM
15 The betrayal of liberation: On the limits to emancipation under post-liberation 274
governments in Southern African post-settler societies
Henning Melber
16 Sovereignty, self-determination and the challenges of nation building in 290
contemporary Africa
Olayode Kehinde Olusola
17 The ‘northern problem’: Is pan-Africanism or regionalism the answer? 305
John Akokpari, Claire Price & Kristen Thompson
18 Pan-Africanism and African regional economic integration 323
Michael. O. Bonchuk
References 341
Notes 383
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements
Without the unwavering cooperation, commitment and willingness of the
contributors to originate the chapters and revise them within strict deadlines,
this book would not have materialised. We therefore express our deepest thanks
to the contributors. The detailed suggestions and comments from anonymous
reviewers enabled us as editors and the contributors to re-think some of our
premises and to attend to issues of the empirical and theoretical quality of the
book. We as editors and individual chapter contributors remain responsible for
all the arguments raised in this book.
vNotes on contributors
John Akokpari is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at
the University of Cape Town. He obtained his PhD from Dalhousie University in
Canada. He has previously taught in Dalhousie University, St. Mary’s
University (all in Canada) and the National University of Lesotho. He was a Visiting
Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies at Chiba, Japan
between January and June 2007. He has researched and published a number of
articles in reputable international journals on Africa specifcally on civil society,
democratisation, foreign policy, globalisation, international migration,
conficts and on Africa’s political economy and development. He also contributed
chapters on these issues in books. He is co-editor of The African Union and its
Institutions (Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2008); and Africa’s Evolving Human
Rights Architecture (Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2008).
Kwesi Aning, PhD, is the Dean and Director of Academic Affairs and Research
Department, of the Kof Annan International Peacekeeping Training centre
(KAIPTC), in Accra, Ghana. He is also a non-resident Fellow with the Centre
on International Cooperation, New York University. Prior to taking up his
current position in January 2007, he served as the African Union’s frst Expert on
counter-terrorism, defence and security with responsibility for implementing
the continental counter-terrorism strategy and oversight of the African Centre
for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT) in Algiers, Algeria. Dr Aning
holds a doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His primary
research interests deal with African security issues broadly, comparative
politics, terrorism and conficts. He has taught in several universities in Europe and
Africa and was recently given an adjunct professorship with the 34th External
Session of The Hague Academy of International Law. He has published
extensively on peace and security issues in Africa.
Carlson Anyangwe is Professor of law at the Walter Sisulu University. He
read law in Cameroon, France and England and holds LLM and PhD from the
University of London. He has a long teaching and research career in
universities in Africa, has published widely and extensively with ten books, thirty-fve
articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 40 conference presentations to his
credit. His teaching and research concentrations are in the areas of public
international law, human rights law and criminal law, with a particular focus on
issues of territory and territorial disputes, self-determination and human rights
in Africa. Anyangwe is a member of the African Human Rights Commission’s
viNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Working Group on the Death Penalty in Africa and is Director of the School of
Law, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa.
Redie Bereketeab is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, heading a
research project on Conficts and State Building in the Horn of Africa. He holds
a PhD in Sociology from Uppsala University. He is the author of Eritrea: The
Making of a Nation, 1890-1991 (The Red Sea Press, 2007), and State-Building
in Post-Liberation Eritrea: Challenges, Achievements and Potentials (Adonis and
Abbey Publishers, 2009). He has also published several articles that include:
‘When Success Become Liability: Challenges of State Building in Eritrea’ in
African and Asian Studies (2007), ‘Conceptualing Civil Society in Africa: The Case of
Eritrea,’ in Journal of Civil Society (2009), ‘The Politics of Language in Eritrea:
Equality of Languages vs. Bilingual Offcial Language Policy’, in African and
Asian Studies (2010), and ‘The Ethnic and Civic Foundations of Citizenship and
Identity in the Horn of Africa,’ in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2