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Title: | Understanding Postcolonial African Frontiers: History, Theory, Policy and Practice | Contributor(s): | Lahai, John Idriss (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2016 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20573 | Abstract: | Not by natural selection, but through human endeavors, Africa is a continent where states have collapsed (Zartman 1995), internecine wars have been fought (see Nhema and Zeleza 2008a; Zack-Williams, Frost and Thomson 2002; Kaplan 1994 ), inter-generational and inter-community/country relationships have broken, people's dignities and identities have, and are still being violated through politically motivated and culturally induced violence in peace and in wartimes (Turshen and Twagiramariya 1998; Meintjes et al. 2001 ). However, it has been people's individual and collective desires for peace and progress that have enabled them to endeavor to rebuild their lives, amid the depravity that surrounds them (Doyle and Sambanis 2006). In the processes of rebuilding their lives and communities, and depending on their collective or individual circumstances, people have had to give up some of their beliefs and practices that were a priori aiding them to politically and socially navigate the continent's perilous environment. Traditions have to be compromised, social and political systems modified for the assimilation of new thought processes, even if they run contrary to their long-held beliefs (Mudimbe 1994; Mudimbe 1988); and people's national identities have to be adjusted to give meaning to the concepts of westernization and modernization, and the corresponding geo-political processes that always accompany the international community's conflict management and post-conflict national reconstruction and recovery policies in Africa (Nhema and Zeleza 2008b ). | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | African Frontiers : Insurgency, Governance and Peacebuilding in Postcolonial States, p. 3-15 | Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing | Place of Publication: | Farnham, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781472460097 9781472460103 9781472460080 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160604 Defence Studies 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified 160607 International Relations |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440804 Defence studies 440808 International relations |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940304 International Political Economy (excl. International Trade) 940301 Defence and Security Policy 940399 International Relations not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230304 International political economy (excl. international trade) 230301 Defence and security policy |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/215126251 | Series Name: | Ashgate plus series in international relations and politics | Editor: | Editor(s): John Idriss Lahai & Tanya Lyons |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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