1st Edition

African Citizenship Aspirations As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul

Edited By Catarina Antunes Gomes, Cesaltina Abreu Copyright 2018
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

This collective work aims to critically reflect upon contemporary citizenship aspirations and practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on different realities, such as Angola, Mozambique and the Great Lakes region, it tries to unveil multiple historical commonalities, especially those arising from shared experiences of postcolonial violence and vulnerability. Thus, albeit the social realities... Read more

1. As time goes by or how far till Banjul: African citizenship aspirations Catarina Antunes Gomes and Cesaltina Abreu  2. From citizenship to social liberalism or beyond? Some theoretical and historical landmarks José Maurício Domingues  3. ‘Queremos ser cidadãos’: citizenship in Mozambique from Frelimo to Frelimo Anna Maria Gentili 4. Power, conflict, and citizenship: Mozambique’s contemporary struggles Elísio Macamo  5. Have we failed Christianity? Or how violence in the Great Lakes region challenges Christianity and the nation state Kasereka Kavwahirehi  6. Cement citizens: housing, demolition and political belonging in Luanda, Angola Claudia Gastrow  7. On Angola as a battlefield Jonuel Gonçalves

Biography



Catarina Antunes Gomes, an anthropologist and PhD in Sociology, is co-coordinator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory at the Catholic University of Angola, Luanda, Angola.



Cesaltina Abreu, an agronomist and PhD in Sociology, is co-coordinator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory at the Catholic University of Angola, Luanda, Angola.