Researching power and identity in African state formation: Comparative perspectives

Table of Contents:
PART I - INCORPORATION AND POLITICAL PENETRATION Part Introduction 1. `Big-man’ and his big brother: Some notes on incorporation by Martin Doornbos 2. The post-colonial state, `state penetration’ and the Nkoya experience in Western Central Zambia by Wim van Binsbergen 3. Recurring penetration strategies in East Africa by Martin Doornbos 4. Aspects of modern state penetration in Africa by Wim van Binsbergen PART II - ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY: WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Part introduction 5. Some conceptual problems concerning ethnicity in integration analysis by Martin Doornbos 6. From tribe to ethnicity in Western Zambia: The unit of study as an ideological problem by Wim van Binsbergen 7. Kumanyana and Rwenzururu: Two responses to ethnic inequality in Uganda by Martin Doornbos 8. The Kazanga festival: Ethnicity as cultural mediation and transformation in Western Central Zambia by Wim van Binsbergen 9. Rwenzururu protest songs by Martin Doornbos and Peter Cooke 10. Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga cultural association in Western Central Zambia today: Resilience, decline, or folklorisation? by Wim van Binsbergen 11. The Ankole kingship question: Stalemate and Implications by Martin Doornbos PART III - RELIGION AND STATE: AMBIGUOUS RELATIONSHIPS Part introduction 12. Fortunes and failures in state formation: Contrasting the jihads of Usman dan Fodio and Mohammed Abdulle Hassan by Martin Doornbos 13. Religious innovation and political conflict in Zambia: The Lumpa rising by Wim van Binsbergen 14. Church and state in Eastern Africa: Some unresolved questions Martin Doornbos 15. African Independent churches and the state in Botswana Wim van Binsbergen PART IV CONSTRUCTING NATIONAL POLITICS Introduction to Part IV 16. Form and ideology in first-generation constitutional preambles: Some francophone African examples Martin Doornbos, Wim van Binsbergen & Gerti Hesseling 17. Aspects of democracy and democratisation in Zambia and Botswana: Exploring African political culture at the grassroots Wim van Binsbergen 18. Enquiring into African statehood, conflict and legitimacy, with particular reference to Somalia and Uganda Martin Doornbos PART V CONCLUSION 19. Conclusion Wim van Binsbergen & Martin Doornbos Notes Cumulative bibliography Index

About the Author :
Martin Doornbos (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, and Visiting Professor of Development Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. His research interests have broadly focused on the dynamics of state-society relations in Africa and India, on the institutional dimensions of conflict and collaboration, the politics of resource allocation, and on questions of state collapse and post-conflict reconstruction. Wim van Binsbergen is an anthropologist, presently working on the theory and method of research on cultural globalisation, especially in connection with virtuality, Information and Communication Technology, ethnicity and religion. His project on 'Africa's Contribution to Global Systems of Knowledge: An Epistemology for African Studies in the Twenty-First Century', provides a link between his research at the ASC and his chair in Foundations of Intercultural Philosophy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.