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Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities - Gr 8 - 9 (Paperback)
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Reflections on Identity in Four African Cities - Gr 8 - 9 (Paperback)
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Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan
Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular
reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration
streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across the
continent. Africa is also facing up to the challenge of nurturing
emergent democracies in which citizens often feel torn between
older traditional and newer national loyalties. Accordingly,
collective identities are deeply coloured by recent urban as well
as international experience and are squarely located within
identity politics where reconciliation is required between state
nation-building strategies and sub-national affiliations. They are
also fundamentally shaped by the growing inequality and the poverty
found on this continent. These themes are explored by an
international set of scholars in two South African and two
Francophone cities. The relative importance to urban residents of
race, class and ethnicity but also of work, space and language are
compared in these cities. This volume also includes a chapter
investigating the emergence of a continental African identity. A
recent report of the Office of the South African President claims
that a strong national identity is emerging among its citizens, and
that race and ethnicity are waning whilst a class identity is in
the ascendance. The evidence and analyses within this volume serve
to gauge the extent to which such claims ring true, in what
everyone knows is a much more complex and shifting terrain of
shared meanings than can ever be captured by such generalisations.
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