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The Postcolonial African State in Transition - Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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The Postcolonial African State in Transition - Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (Hardcover)
Series: Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions
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The Postcolonial African State in Transition offers a new
perspective on a set of fundamental, albeit old questions with
salient contemporary resonance: what is the nature of the
postcolonial state? How did it come about? And more crucially, the
book poses an often neglected question: what was the postcolonial
African state internally built against? Through a detailed
historical investigation of the Voltaic region, the book theorizes
the state in transition as the constitutive condition of the
African state, rendering centralization processes as always
transient, uncertain, even dangerous endeavors. In Africa and
elsewhere in the colonial and postcolonial world, the centralized
sovereign state has become something of a meta-model that bears the
imprint of necessity and determinism. This book argues that there
is nothing natural, linear, conventional or intrinsically
consensual about the centralized state form. In fact, the African
state emerged, and was erected against, and at the expense of a
variety of authority structures and forms of self-governance. The
state has sustained itself through destructive practices, internal
colonization, and in fact the production and alienation of a range
of internal others.
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