East Africa in search of national and regional renewal
By: edited by Felicia Arudo Yieke
Contributors: Yieke, Felicia Arudo
Series: Codesria book series
Publisher: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dakar, Senegal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Nationalism -- Africa, East; Ethnicity -- Africa, East; Africa, East -- Politics and government
Description: The contributors explore different dimensions of the challenges confronting the countries of the sub-region, lending particular emphasis to historiography and the nationalist legacy. They stress the centrality of the role of the intellectual community, language policy and the management of diversity and multilingualism in the strengthening and restoration of popular democratic participation and state and policy processes. At the heart of the debate are the quest for an all-round project of regionalisation and renewal and the ideals of autonomous development and social justice. Contents: the rise, the fall and the insurrection of nationalism in Africa; intellectuals and Africa's renewal; language and regional integration: foreign or African languages for the Africa Union?; language and the east African parliament; ethnicity: an opportunity or a bane in Africa's development?; ethno-centralism and movement politics in Uganda; and intellectuals and soldiers: the socialist experiment in Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: The rise, the fall, and the insurrection of nationalism in Africa / Issa G. Shivji; title: Intellectuals and Africa's renewal / Chachage Seithy L. Chachage; title: Language and regional integration : foreign or African languages for the African Union? / Sangai Mohochi; title: Language and the East African Parliament / Felicia Arudo Yieke; title: Ethnicity : an opportunity or a bane in Africa's development? / Emmanuel Okoth Manyasa; title: Ethno-centralism and movement politics in Uganda / Mohammed Kulumba; title: Intellectuals and soldiers : the socialist experiment in the Horn of Africa / Bahru Zewde; title: Transient, mobile "nations" and the dilemma of nationhood in the Horn of Africa / Maurice N. Amutabi; title: Legal and political dilemma in transforming a movement to multi-party system in Uganda / Mohammed Kulumba