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Nationalism, as an ideology coupling self-conscious peoples to fixed territories, is often seen as emerging from European historical developments, also in postcolonial countries outside Europe. André van Dokkum’s Nationalism and Territoriality in Barue and Mozambique shows that this view is not universally true. The precolonial Kingdom of Barue in what is now Mozambique showed characteristics generally associated with nationalism, giving the country great resilience against colonial encroachment. Postcolonial Mozambique, on the other hand, has so far not succeeded in creating national coherence. The former anti-colonial organization and now party in power Frelimo has always stressed national unity, but only under its own guidance, paradoxically producing disunity.
Price: $66.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
Publication Date:
23 May 2020
ISBN: 9789004428416
Format: Paperback
'André van Dokkum’s book on the precolonial and postcolonial history of Barue and Mozambique is, in some ways, several different books in one: a detailed history of the precolonial Kingdom in Barue; an analysis of political infighting within Mozambique’s ruling party, FRELIMO, as it accumulated power before and after decolonization; a close study of how chiefs and FRELIMO exercise power in present-day Mozambique; and a
theoretical attempt to locate both precolonial Barue and postcolonial Mozambique within a matrix of different definitions of the nation-state'.
[...] 'Overall, the depth of the book’s research will make it important reading for scholars interested in comparative political analyses of precolonial and postcolonial Mozambique'.
Zachary Kagan Guthrie, University of Mississippi, in IJAHS 54, No. 2 (2021), pp 254-256.
"[...] rôle de modèle pour tous les politologues qui seraient tentés de suivre son exemple pour comparer différents types de nationalismes africains"
René Pélissier in Africana Studia 2020 (34), pp 196-198
'The book displays a timeline of Barue and Mozambique's historical interactions in a very innovative manner. The author is successful in accomplishing his goal of providing a thorough framework for comprehending Mozambique's nationalism and state creation. The book will be invaluable to Mozambicans, and indeed to anyone who has an interest in Mozambique politics and history. More significantly, it is a historical record that Mozambicans concerned in the future of their homeland should study and examine. Overall, the book is well written, extremely well organized, and clearly meets the author’s stated purpose. Very few studies have undertaken such an exercise which is engaging and interesting'.
Prem Kumar Bharti, University of Delhi in African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2022), pp 84-86
[...] a most recommended reading. Comparisons of independent precolonial statehood with postcolonial state formation are rare. Van Dokkum’s book is a vanguard research monograph' [...] Petr Skalník in Anthropology Southern Africa 45:4 (2022), pp 248-251
[...] 'Overall, the depth of the book’s research will make it important reading for scholars interested in comparative political analyses of precolonial and postcolonial Mozambique'.
Zachary Kagan Guthrie, University of Mississippi, in IJAHS 54, No. 2 (2021), pp 254-256.
"[...] rôle de modèle pour tous les politologues qui seraient tentés de suivre son exemple pour comparer différents types de nationalismes africains"
René Pélissier in Africana Studia 2020 (34), pp 196-198
'The book displays a timeline of Barue and Mozambique's historical interactions in a very innovative manner. The author is successful in accomplishing his goal of providing a thorough framework for comprehending Mozambique's nationalism and state creation. The book will be invaluable to Mozambicans, and indeed to anyone who has an interest in Mozambique politics and history. More significantly, it is a historical record that Mozambicans concerned in the future of their homeland should study and examine. Overall, the book is well written, extremely well organized, and clearly meets the author’s stated purpose. Very few studies have undertaken such an exercise which is engaging and interesting'.
Prem Kumar Bharti, University of Delhi in African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 21, Issue 1 (2022), pp 84-86
[...] a most recommended reading. Comparisons of independent precolonial statehood with postcolonial state formation are rare. Van Dokkum’s book is a vanguard research monograph' [...] Petr Skalník in Anthropology Southern Africa 45:4 (2022), pp 248-251
André van Dokkum, Ph.D. (2015), VU University Amsterdam, is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Macau. He published two edited volumes on Africanist topics, with G.J. Abbink: Verdeeld Afrika (AMB, 2008) and Dilemmas of Development (African Studies Centre, 2008).