Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict

Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau

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ID20042312
AuthorsChristoph Kohl (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages223-245
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePolitics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3_11
OpenAlexW2549376607
ISBN9781349950133
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited33

Kohl offers a much-needed socio-anthropological analysis of the Cape Verdean community in Guinea-Bissau. Cape Verdeans have integrated to various degrees into Bissau-Guinean society but have been repeatedly, until recently, identified as a “cause of trouble” in the country’s brief history. From both late colonial and postcolonial perspectives, Kohl offers a more nuanced exploration of Cape Verdeans’ culture and identity, and their role in both the struggle for independence from Portugal and postcolonial nation- and state-building in Guinea-Bissau. “Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict” demonstrates that the relationship between Cape Verdeans and the rest of the Bissau-Guinean population, as well as the former’s role in the country’s politics, has been far more complex than often assumed

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