Coordinators/Coordonnateurs:
Said Adejumobi (Lagos State University), Aminata Diaw (Univ
Cheikh Anta Diop).
Advisory Group:
Fred Hendricks (Rhodes University, South Africa); Joe
Oloka-Onyango (Makerere University), Uganda, et Karuti Kayinga,
(University of Nairobi, Kenya)
The question of
citizenship and identity is one of the thematic areas at the
core of the current intellectual agenda of the Council. Recent
events across the African continent, including, dramatically and
tragically, the eruption of violent conflicts and massacres,
have once again brought the question of citizenship and identity
to the fore of intellectual discourses and policy reflection.
The combination of factors which has posed the citizenship and
identity question anew range from the economic and the social to
the political and demographic. Matters have not been helped by
the crisis of state legitimacy as well as the project of state
retrenchment that has taken a severe toll on governance capacity
in most parts of the continent. As can be expected, a broad
range of contestations have been organised around the
multidimensional citizenship and identity issues that have been
thrown up. These contestations have both been generated by and
have helped bring to the fore, the disjuncture between formal
rules of citizenship and daily practice as it actually takes
place; the shifting spatial (re)distribution of population
within and between states and the unchanging rules by which
rights and entitlement are defined and allocated; the high
ideals of the social contract between state and society and the
non-justiceability of most citizen rights at a time of the
retrenchment of the social state and the collapse of state
capacity; the patriarchal foundations of the
construction/practice of citizen rights and the growing
challenges of accommodating women’s rights; the promise of
nation-building founded on multiculturalism (as projected by the
slogan of unity in diversity) and the increasing parochial
politics of settlers/residents vs. natives/indigenes; the
growing cosmopolitanism associated, in part, with a rapid
process of urbanisation and the intensification of xenophobia
and xenophobic practices; and the tension between civic law and
the colonially-constructed realm of “tradition” and “custom”.
Members of the team
Mike Neocosmos, South Africa
Re-thinking Active Citizenship in
Africa Today: a brief research proposal
Ibrahim Abdullah
Sierra Leone
Neither Indigenes nor Citizens : The
in-between(ness) of Madingoes in Liberia and the Lebanese in
Sierra Leone
Ogoh Alubo,
Nigeria
The Crisis of “Ethnic” Citizenship
in Nigeria: Indigene/Settler Identity and Political Conflicts in
Plateau State
Dr. Dixon O
Torimiro, Nigeria
Ethno-Cultural Relations and Nomadic
Youth Identity Transformation among the Fulani Settlers in Osun
State, Nigeria
Godfrey Asiiimwe
B, Ouganda
“Of Unequal Competition and Citizenship Contests:
The Case of Asians in the Commodity Marketing Arena and
Sustainable Co-existence in Recovering Uganda
Alex Frempong,
Ghana
The Settler Factor in the Electoral
Politics of Ghana’s Fourth Republic : A Study of New Edubiase,
Ejura Sekyedumase, Fanteakwa and Afram Plains (North & South)
constituencies
Amanda Gouws,
south Africa
Gender in the Definition of
Citizenship
Shireen Ally,
South Africa
Maid in the New South Africa:
Contradictory Citizenship in Contemporary South Africa
Mustapha Ziky, Maroc
Citoyenneté et Développement Socio-économique au Maroc Face aux
Différentes Formes d’Exclusion : Rétrospectives et Enjeux Futurs
Mahmoud Hussein,
Kenya
Living with Layers of conflicts: New
Challenges of Identity construction in northern Somalia
Raphina Phillott-Almeida,
Gambie
Poverty in the Gambia: Featuring
Women’s Livelihoods and Coping Strategies
Léopold Donfack,
Cameroun
Identités, Territoire et Citoyenneté au Cameroun. Contribution à
la Théorie Juridique de l’Etat Postmoderne
Moustapha Sall,
Senegal
Les Dynamiques de l’Identité et de la Citoyenneté dans
l’Afrique Précoloniale et Coloniale
Zahra Tamouh,
Morocco
Citoyenneté et Société Civile au Maroc : Quelle identité pour
les organisations de développement
Brahim Salhi,
Algeria
Construction de la Citoyenneté, conflits identitaires et
politiques : le cas de l’Algérie
Francis Njubi
Nesbitt, Tanzanie
Transnationalism and the problematic
of diasporic identity
Ezra Chitando,
Zimbabwe
Religion, Citizenship and Identity:
African Instituted Churches in Zimbabwe and Regional Integration
