‘An Imaginary Nation’. Nationalism, Ideology & the Mozambican National Elite

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20060462
AutoresJ Sumich (0000-0001-5486-2798, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Páginas127-147
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoSure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004226012_007
OpenAlexW2956220189
ISBN9789004226012
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4

This chapter addresses the specification of the tde-marginalisationt of National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) shortly before and after independence. There is little doubt that ethnicity played an important role in the Angolan civil war, and that it proved to be a very potent mobilising tool for UNITA. The chapter starts with a brief critical overview of the historiography of Angolan nationalism, showing how dominant interpretations of the role of ethnicity and religion in explaining the divisions within Angolan nationalism have provided a reductionist picture. It then goes on to analyse the social and political meaning of ethnicity in the late colonial phase before offering some thoughts on the moral economy of exclusion upon which UNITA built its growth in the late 1970s. Keywords:Angolan civil war; UNITA

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