African identities : contemporary political and social challenges /

African identities : contemporary political and social challenges / edited by Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye. - Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002. - xiv, 175 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The making of modern Africa .

"This volume grew out of the Australasian African Studies Conference held in Adelaide in 2000 ... some additional papers have been assembled in this volume"--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Boundaries of the state / Colonial communities in Africa and Asia / Between modernism and memory / Women, resistance, and the armed struggle in Southern Africa / Tragedy of Sierre Leone / Democratic revival in Africa / Crisis in the union and multi-party democracy / Ethnic clashes in Kenya and the politics of the 'ethnic enclave' / Uganda / Collective co-operatives in Zimbabwe 1980-1998 / Labor and beer in Africa / Bill Ashcroft -- Roger Knight -- Elizabeth Rankin -- Tanya Lyons and Mark Israel -- David Dorward -- S. C. Saxena -- Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye -- Jeffrey S. Steeves -- Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye -- Paul Nursey-Bray -- Patrick McAllister.

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Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic conditions--1960---Congresses.

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