Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community – Dialogues between Past and Pr…

Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in AfricaDialogues Between Past and Present\nAuthor(s): Emma Hunter, Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, Solomon M. Gofie, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, Eghosa E. Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821422571, 978-0821422571\nSynopsis\nAfrica, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past.\n Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa provides a critical reflection on citizenship in Africa by.