Nationhood and Statehood:

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" Nationhood and Statehood: "
Reginald M.J. Oduor

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083649
Doc. No	:	LA127278
Call No	:	‭10.1163/26836408-01302004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Reginald M.J. Oduor
Title & Author	:	Nationhood and Statehood: [Article] : The Impact of a Conflated Discourse on African Polities and their Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups\ Reginald M.J. Oduor
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Utafiti
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/2
Page No	:	45–66
Abstract	:	It is now conventional to refer to post-colonial African polities as ‘nations’ or ‘nation-states’. However, in this article I argue that the conflation of nationhood and statehood has led to the violation of the rights of non-dominant ethnic groups to meaningful political participation, equitable economic opportunities, ethnic identity, and secession. Thus this conflation leads to an on-going lack of legitimacy in postcolonial African states, thereby exposing them to perpetual neocolonial domination. It is now conventional to refer to post-colonial African polities as ‘nations’ or ‘nation-states’. However, in this article I argue that the conflation of nationhood and statehood has led to the violation of the rights of non-dominant ethnic groups to meaningful political participation, equitable economic opportunities, ethnic identity, and secession. Thus this conflation leads to an on-going lack of legitimacy in postcolonial African states, thereby exposing them to perpetual neocolonial domination.
Descriptor	:	ethnicity
Descriptor	:	nation-state
Descriptor	:	neocolonialism
Descriptor	:	state
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/26836408-01302004‬