From Integration to Repatriation. Flight, Displacement, and Expulsion in Post-colonial Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID20073096
AuthorsEwout Frankema (0000-0002-7504-2817, corresponding author)
Year2022
Pages330-352
Publication date2022-03-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMigration in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003225027-21
OpenAlexW4293100063
ISBN9781003225027
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited35

The majority of African countries shook of the chains of colonial oppression between 1951 and 1975. The end of colonial rule heralded a contentious era of nation-state building culminating in widespread armed confict in the closing quarter of the 20th century. As earlier independence struggles in the Americas and Asia had shown, political disorder and violence arose easily in the power vacuums left by retreating imperial forces Colonial rule had bequeathed Africa with more than 50 territorially compartmentalized polities, separated by a web of mostly arbitrary borders, uniting diferent peoples in a challenge to shape post-colonial societies, while splitting others apart. At the same time, colonial authorities had bolstered ethnic identities, amongst others through the granting of customary land rights, which incentivized local authorities to distinguish insiders from outsiders along ethnic lines and to discourage permanent settlement of ethnic others

Archaeology · Colonialism · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Repatriation · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Psychology