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- Title
Nationale Integration in Guinea-Bissau: Das Beispiel der Manjuandadis.
- Authors
Kohl, Christoph
- Abstract
This article explores the ways in which so-called manjuandadi associations have influenced processes of postcolonial nation-building "from below" in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, since independence achieved in 1974. The paper conceives nation- and statehood as separate analytical concepts, demonstrating that national integration is comparatively well advanced. Since independence, several cultural representations previously exclusive to creole communities have been transformed into representations of a new national culture, thus crossing ethnic and religious boundaries. I argue that the spread of these formerly exclusively creole representations has been facilitated by the fact that creole identity and culture are transethnic. This means that creole identity brings together individuals of heterogeneous cultural, ethnic, and geographic descent. Because creole identity encompassed various other ethnic identities, it resembled a nation "in small". Therefore, manjuandadis were not identified with a specific ethnic group; rather they were formed by people of different ethnic backgrounds who assembled under the creole umbrella.
- Subjects
GUINEA-Bissau; WEST Africa; NATIONAL unification; POSTCOLONIALISM; POLITICAL autonomy; ETHNICITY; CREOLES; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 2012, Vol 137, Issue 1, p71
- ISSN
0044-2666
- Publication type
Article