Histórias de tribos: o nacionalismo africano diante da etnicidade

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to present a brief overview of African nationalist discourses on ethnicity and its relation to the task of building a new nation in the former colonial territory. This is neither a census effort nor a definitive assessment of the full empirical spectrum of African nationalism in the independence years; indeed, that does not seem to me to be necessary or even productive for the kind of general analysis that is being sought here.