The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (Oxford Handbooks in History) by Breuilly John

Author:Breuilly, John [Breuilly, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

While deliberate efforts at nation-building rarely worked out as intended, as they have rarely done elsewhere, the first decades of independence appear to have produced throughout sub-Saharan Africa a popular sense of both nationhood and of the need to eat from and avoid being eaten by the nation’s state. African states have, with some tragic exceptions, endured with striking tenacity the recent depredations of neo-liberal globalization. Although state administrative apparatuses have been seriously undermined and state control, particularly of large areas of the countryside, has receded and sometimes disappeared for considerable periods of time in some of the weaker states, ‘state collapse or state failure’ has been significantly exaggerated, often to conceal the failures of neo-liberal structural adjustment and turn the state from victim to predator.

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