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1. Africa’s Secessionism: A Breakdance of Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, and Disenchantment

verfasst von : Mareike Schomerus, Pierre Englebert, Lotje de Vries

Erschienen in: Secessionism in African Politics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter offers four interpretations of Africa’s secessionism: aspiration, grievance, performance, and disenchantment. Secessionism remains a fundamental theme of African politics, despite being largely removed from the realm of the thinkable. Yet, South Sudan’s independence against all odds shows that African secessionism is also contradictory. Its aspirational simplicity obscures a complex political phenomenon that often couples a territorial demand with invocations of the right to self-determination. Claims are based on grievances, marginalization, narratives, and economic interests. The consequences of such claims vary; the two cases of successful post-colonial secession highlight that secessionism does not guarantee improvements. And secessionist claims rarely challenge the notion that the sovereign territorial state is the answer to Africans’ problems rather than one of its roots.

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Nächstes Kapitel Shifting Grounds for African Secessionism?
Fußnoten
1
Cameroon MP Injured by Flying Debris (2017) and Pommerolle and Heungoup (2017).
 
2
The petitioners claimed the merger had happened without the consent of the people, who had been “a distinct, cohesive, homogeneous, and a united community.” Merging it with the British East Africa Protectorate had been “illegal” and a violation of the UN Charter and UN Resolution No. 1514 (XV) that laid out the principles of equal rights and self-determination of all peoples, they further argued (Akwei September 19, 2017).
 
3
Allison (November 3, 2017).
 
4
See Lecocq and Klute (2018) in this volume.
 
5
See Martin (2018) in this volume.
 
6
See Walls and Pegg (November 10, 2017).
 
7
Harnischfeger (2018).
 
8
See Larmer and Kennes (2018) in this volume.
 
9
BBC Focus on Africa (September 11, 2017).
 
10
See Byrne and Englebert (2018) in this volume.
 
11
Englebert (2009).
 
12
de Vries and Schomerus (2017).
 
13
Organisation of African Unity (1963).
 
14
United Nations General Assembly (1960).
 
15
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1966, 1976).
 
16
United Nations General Assembly (1970).
 
17
Castellino (2014: 31).
 
18
World Conference on Human Rights (1993).
 
19
Bereketeab (2015: 229).
 
20
Bayart (1993).
 
21
Nugent (2010).
 
22
Bereketeab (2015: 229).
 
23
Bereketeab (2015: 229) and Dobler (2018).
 
24
de Vries and Schomerus (2017).
 
25
In this volume, Konings and Nyamnjoh (2018).
 
26
In this volume, Dobler (2018).
 
27
Horowitz (2001, 2nd ed.).
 
28
Anthony I. Asiwaju (2016), A.I. Asiwaju and Nugent (1996), Nugent and Asiwaju (1996) and C. Vaughan, Schomerus, and De Vries (2013).
 
29
Miles (2018).
 
30
Byrne and Englebert (2018).
 
31
Dobler (2018).
 
32
Young (1994).
 
33
Lecocq and Klute (2018).
 
34
Konings and Nyamnjoh (2018).
 
35
Vaughan (2018).
 
36
Porges (2018).
 
37
Dobler (2018).
 
38
Cameron (2018).
 
39
Martin (2018).
 
40
Hoehne (2018).
 
41
Foucher (2018).
 
42
Zeller and Melber (2018).
 
43
Harnischfeger (2018).
 
44
Larmer and Kennes (2018).
 
45
Dias and Dorman (2018).
 
46
Schomerus and de Vries (2018).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Africa’s Secessionism: A Breakdance of Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, and Disenchantment
verfasst von
Mareike Schomerus
Pierre Englebert
Lotje de Vries
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Buch
Secessionism in African Politics

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-90205-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-90206-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90206-7_1