Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

Nations and Nationalism

What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism ? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge

Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an uncaptured peasantry

Nations and nationalism since 1780: programme, myth and reality and Coercion, capital and European states, AD 990–1990

Since the 2000s, Tanzania has witnessed the return in the public sphere of a reconfigured version of Ujamaa as a set of moral principles embodied in the figure of the first president of Tanzania, Julius Kambarage Nyerere. The persisting traces of Nyerere and Ujamaa are not so evident in actual political practices or economic pol- icies, but rather in collective debates about politics and morality—in short, in contempo- rary imaginaries of the nation. Contributing to a long-standing discussion of the moral stature of Tanzania's "father of the nation," the article explores how and why a shared historical memory of Nyerere is being built or contested to define, mediate, and con- struct Tanzanian conceptions of morality, belonging, and citizenship in the polis today. Resume: Depuis les annees 2000, on observe le retour d'une version reconfiguree de l'Ujamaa dans la sphere publique en Tanzanie. Cette ensemble de principes moraux avait ete incarnee par la personnalite du premier president de Tanzanie, Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Les traces persistantes de Nyerere et de l'Ujamaa ne sont pas tant evidentes dans les pratiques politiques reelles ou dans les politiques economiques, que dans les debats collectifs sur le politique et la moralite, bref, sur les imaginaires contemporains de la nation. Afin de contribuer a un debat de longue date sur la stature morale du "pere de la nation" tanzanienne, l'article explore comment et pourquoi une memoire historique commune de Nyerere est en train d'etre construite ou contestee pour definir, negocier et construire les conceptions tanzaniennes de la moralite, du sentiment d'appartenance et de la citoyennete dans l'espace citoyen d'aujourd'hui.

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Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania

During the run-up to Kenya?s 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and voting? How would politicians, electoral bodies such as the IEBC, the Kenyan civil society, and the international community weigh in on the elections? More generally, would the 2013 elections bear witness to the building up of an electoral culture in Kenya, characterized by free and fair elections, or would it show that voting is still weakened by political malpractices, partisan opinions and emotional reactions? Would Kenya?s past be inescapable or would it prepare the scene for a new political order? Kenya?s Past as Prologue adopts a multidisciplinary perspective ? mainly built upon field-based ethnography and a selection of case studies ? to answer these questions Under the leadership of the French Institute for Research in Africa (Institut franc?ais de recherche en Afrique, IFRA), political scientists, historians and anthropologists explore various aspects of the electoral process to contribute in-depth analyses of the last elections They highlight the structural factors underlying election and voting in Kenya including the political system, culture and political transition They also interrogate the short-term trends and issues that influence the new political order The book provides insight into specific case studies, situations and contexts, thus bringing nuances and diversity into focus to better assess Kenya?s evolving electoral democracy

Kenya's Past as Prologue: Voters, Violence and the 2013 General Election

«Aeroport international Nyerere». «Rue Nyerere». «Cafe Internet Nyerere». «Casino Julius Nyerere». «Vente de pieces detachees Nyerere». Cette caricature de 2005 du dessinateur tanzanien Nathan Mpangala, qui se moque de l’avalanche d’enseignes au nom du premier president de la RepubliqueuniedeTanzanie1,illustreavecironiel’engouementnationalqui a pris forme autour de la gure de Julius Kambarage Nyerere apres son deces en octobre 1999. En quelques annees, le souvenir du pere de la nation s’est incarne dans des lieux de memoires bâtis, pictographiques ou ecrits. Il a gagne en visibilite a partir des deuxiemes elections multipartites de 2005....

Tanzanie : la nation à l'épreuve du postsocialisme

For years, the official narrative of the Zanzibari nation imposed a specific conception of identity and citizenship built on a racial understanding of the Isles’ history and the silencing of collective memories of violence perpetrated by the 1964-1975 regime. The democratization process of the mid-1990s allowed for the emergence of a critical public sphere which contributed to the public circulation of alternative national imaginaries and the resurfacing of clandestine collective memories. This paper explores the role of the press in the production and circulation of alternative narratives of the 1964 Revolution and its aftermath by focusing on the Zanzibari newspaper Dira. It shows how issues raised in the newspaper’s memory entrepreneurs engage with collective representations of belonging and the nation in Zanzibar.

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Reinterpreting revolutionary Zanzibar in the media today: the case of 'Dira' newspaper

Reprenant a bon compte les dichotomies classiques entre tradition et modernite, entre communaute et societe, le diagnostic a ete pose de l’apparition d’une « crise de la memoire » (Werbner 1998b : 1) dans une Afrique sub-saharienne entree de plain-pied dans la modernite urbaine et industrielle, tournee vers le progres et l’avenir. Le continent aurait atteint le crepuscule de la transmission memorielle, a l’instar des societes occidentales aujourd’hui d’autant plus obsedees par la memoire qu’e...

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Marie-Aude Fouéré

Papers

Julius Nyerere, Ujamaa, and Political Morality in Contemporary Tanzania

Kenya's Past as Prologue: Voters, Violence and the 2013 General Election

Tanzanie : la nation à l'épreuve du postsocialisme

Reinterpreting revolutionary Zanzibar in the media today: the case of 'Dira' newspaper

La mémoire au prisme du politique