عنوان

Nationhood and Statehood:

LA127278

انگلیسی

Nationhood and Statehood:

[Article]

The Impact of a Conflated Discourse on African Polities and their Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups

Reginald M.J. Oduor

Leiden

Brill

It is now conventional to refer to post-colonial African polities as 'nations' or 'nation-states'. However, in this article I argue that the conflation of nationhood and statehood has led to the violation of the rights of non-dominant ethnic groups to meaningful political participation, equitable economic opportunities, ethnic identity, and secession. Thus this conflation leads to an on-going lack of legitimacy in postcolonial African states, thereby exposing them to perpetual neocolonial domination. It is now conventional to refer to post-colonial African polities as 'nations' or 'nation-states'. However, in this article I argue that the conflation of nationhood and statehood has led to the violation of the rights of non-dominant ethnic groups to meaningful political participation, equitable economic opportunities, ethnic identity, and secession. Thus this conflation leads to an on-going lack of legitimacy in postcolonial African states, thereby exposing them to perpetual neocolonial domination.

2018

45-66

Utafiti

13/2

2683-6408

ethnicity

nation-state

neocolonialism

state

Reginald M.J. Oduor

10.1163/26836408-01302004

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[Article]

275578

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