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Customary Nationalism in Crisis: Protest, Identity and Politics in eSwatini book cover

1st Edition

Customary Nationalism in Crisis Protest, Identity and Politics in eSwatini

Edited By Vito Laterza, Casey Golomski Copyright 2026
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines the aftermath of eSwatini's fiftieth anniversary of independence and the COVID-19 pandemic, when many citizens of this last absolute monarchy in Africa took to their communities in unprecedented protests for democratic reform. For raising their voices, they were met with brutal police violence.  Customary Nationalism in Crisis  offers snapshots of life in the Kingdom leading up... Read more

Note for the Reader

Introduction - Customary nationalism in crisis: Protest, identity and politics in eSwatini

Vito Laterza and Casey Golomski

 

1. Dualism’s dilemmas: Citizenship and migration in contemporary eSwatini

Gabby Sipho Dlamini

 

2. Race, politics and constitution-making in the negotiations leading to Eswatini’s independence (formerly Swaziland) 1960–1968

Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini

 

3. Raising the profile of siSwati as a national language

Gloria B. Malambe and Carolyn Harford

 

4. Interrogating traditionalism: Gender and Swazi Culture in HIV/AIDS policy

Casey Golomski

 

5. Leadership and gender in Eswatini: Swati politics through the prism of Gelane Simelane Zwane, 1990–2018

Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini

 

6. Between collaboration and conflict: Patterns of interaction between labour and pro-democracy politics in post-colonial Eswatini, 1973–2014

Sifiso Hlandze

 

7. Understanding the 2021 eSwatini school protests: Theoretical reflections of an educator

Ncamsile Daphne Motsa

 

Biography

Vito Laterza is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway, and was 2024-2025 SCAS-Nordic Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden. He is an anthropologist and media scholar writing and editing for a range of scholarly journals and presses and popular media.

Casey Golomski is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire, USA, and author of two books—God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End and Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.

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