Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment Lotje De Vries 3319902067 9783319902067

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• ISBN 10: 3319902067
• ISBN 13: 9783319902067
• Author: Lotje De Vries

Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, Katanga, Eritrea and South Sudan alongside Barotseland, Cabinda, and the Comoros, among others. Suggesting that African secessionism can be understood through the categories of aspiration, grievance, performance, and disenchantment, the book’s analytical framework promises to be a building block for future studies of the topic.

Table of contents:

1. Africa’s Secessionism: A Breakdance of Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, and Disenchantment

Part I. Aspiration: Dreams of Independence

2. Tuareg Separatism in Mali and Niger

3. Anglophone Secessionist Movements in Cameroon

4. Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Ogaden: Still a Running Sore at the Heart of the Horn of Africa

Part II. Grievance: Postcolonial Confusion

5. Western Sahara and Morocco: Complexities of Resistance and Analysis

6. Secessionism in Anjouan, Comoros: Internal Dynamics, External Decisions

7. Zanzibar in the Tanzania Union

8. The Front(s) for the Liberation of Cabinda in Angola: A Phantom Insurgency

9. Against the Grain: Somaliland’s Secession from Somalia

Part III. Performance: Secessionism as Politics by Other Means

10. The Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance: The Illusion of Separatism in Senegal?

11. United in Separation? Lozi Secessionism in Zambia and Namibia

12. Biafra and Secessionism in Nigeria: An Instrument of Political Bargaining

13. Katanga’s Secessionism in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Part IV. Disenchantment: The Aftermath of Success

14. “We Didn’t Fight for This”: The Pitfalls of State- and Nation-Building in Eritrea

15. A State of Contradiction: Sudan’s Unity Goes South

16. Shifting Grounds for African Secessionism?

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