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What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in postcolonial Africa? What has been the long-term impact of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 on African unity and African statehood? Why is postcolonial Africa haunted by various ethno national conflicts? Is secession and irredentism the solution? Can we talk of ethno-futures for Africa? These are the kinds of fundamental questions that this important book addresses. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Brilliant Mhlangaís book introduces the metaphor of the ënorthern problemí to dramatise the fact that there is no major African postcolonial state that does not enclose within its borders a disgruntled minority that is complaining of marginalization, domination and suppression. The irony is that in 1963 at the formation of the OAU, postcolonial African leaders embraced the boundaries arbitrarily drawn by European colonialists and institutionalised the principle of inviolability of ëbondage of boundariesí thereby contributing to the problem of ethno-national conflicts. The successful struggle for independence of the Eritrean people and the secession of South Sudan in 2011 have encouraged other dominated and marginalised groups throughout Africa to view secession as an option. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Mhlanga successfully assembled competent African scholars to deal exhaustively with various empirical cases of ethno-national conflicts throughout the African continent as well as engaging with such pertinent issues as Pan-Africanism as a panacea to these problems. This important book delves deeper into complex issues of space, languages, conflict, security, nation-building, war on terror, secession, migration, citizenship, militias, liberation, violence and Pan-Africanism.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 2-3
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. iii-iv
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. pp. v-6
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  1. Notes on contributors
  2. pp. vi-xii
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  1. INTRODUCTION - Borders, identities, the ‘northern problem’ and ethno-futures in postcolonial Africa
  2. pp. 1-22
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  1. PART I - Space, boundaries and countours of the ‘northern problem’
  1. CHAPTER 1 - Space matters. Rethinking spatiality in discourses of colonial and postcolonial ‘boundaries’
  2. pp. 24-44
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  1. CHAPTER 2 - Africa in search of (in)security. Beyond the bondage of boundaries
  2. pp. 45-60
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  1. CHAPTER 3 - State-building, conflict and global war on terror in the Horn of Africa
  2. pp. 61-78
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  1. CHAPTER 4 - The burden of ‘national languages’ and the bondages of linguistic boundaries in postcolonial Africa
  2. pp. 79-98
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  1. PART 2 - Autochthons, minorities and politics of secession
  1. CHAPTER 5 - ‘Northern problem’. Postcolony, identity and political [in]stability in Cote d’Ivoire and Togo
  2. pp. 100-116
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  1. CHAPTER 6 - Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni struggle and the logic of spectacle
  2. pp. 117-129
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  1. CHAPTER 7 - The state and the ‘southern problem’ in Sudan. Marginalisation, self-determination and secessionism
  2. pp. 130-147
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  1. CHAPTER 8 - The Anglophone problem and the secession option in Cameroon
  2. pp. 148-162
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  1. CHAPTER 9 - Manumission from black-on-black colonialism. Sovereign statehood for the British Southern Cameroons
  2. pp. 163-184
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  1. PART 3 - Migration, conflict, citizenship and violence
  1. CHAPTER 10 - A quest for belonging. Migration, identities and the politics of belonging in Africa
  2. pp. 186-204
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  1. CHAPTER 11 - ‘Discipline and disengagement’. Cross-border migration and the quest for identity among the Ndebele of South-western Zimbabwe
  2. pp. 205-221
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  1. CHAPTER 12 - Homo sacer. Citizenship, exclusion and irregular labour migration from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, to South Africa
  2. pp. 222-236
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  1. CHAPTER 13 - Colonialism, postcolonial violence and repression. Reflections on the northern question in Uganda
  2. pp. 237-256
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  1. CHAPTER 14 - Ethnicity, conflicts, and the rise of militia groups in Nigeria
  2. pp. 257-272
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  1. PART 4 - Territorial nationalism, regionalism and pan-Africanism
  1. CHAPTER 15 - The betrayal of liberation. On the limits to emancipation under post-liberation governments in Southern African post-settler societies
  2. pp. 274-289
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  1. CHAPTER 16 - Sovereignty, self-determination and the challenges of nation building in contemporary Africa
  2. pp. 290-304
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  1. CHAPTER 17 - The ‘northern problem’. Is pan-Africanism or regionalism the answer?
  2. pp. 305-322
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  1. CHAPTER 18 - Pan-Africanism and African regional economic integration
  2. pp. 323-340
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  1. References
  2. pp. 341-382
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 383-386
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  1. Back Cover
  2. p. 387
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