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Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (Paperback)
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This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in
the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in
Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen
sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased
development, education and living standards. There was hope that
ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be
transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups.
However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of
peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their
home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and
socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was
dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut
across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and
friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted
in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples
from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic
and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in
this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that
they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political
judgement. Originally published in 1969.
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