Rethinking the Katangese secession

dc.contributor.authorLarmer, Miles
dc.contributor.authorKennes, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-21T08:33:20Z
dc.date.available2015-07-21T08:33:20Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description.abstractThis article, in analysing the Katangese secession of 1960-63, argues that it should be primarily understood not simply as the result of external machinations but, at least as importantly, as the initiative of indigenous Katangese political leaders. It charts the development of the Katangese national project amongst self-consciously ‘indigenous’ Katangese leaders, who responded to what they saw as an imposed and illegitimate Congolese nation-state by constructing a national imagery rooted in a mythico-historical reconstruction of a usable Katangese past. The article explains how this was utilised by the Katangese state during the secession to perform an ‘authentic’ Katangese national identity. In so doing, the article situates the Katangese draws attention to the parallels between the Katangese nation-state project and attempts by post-colonial states to perform nationhood elsewhere in Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2016-10-31en_ZA
dc.description.librarianhb2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fich20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMiles Larmer & Erik Kennes (2014) Rethinking the Katangese Secession, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 42:4, 741-761, DOI : 10.1080/03086534.2014.894716en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0308-6534 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1743-9329 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/03086534.2014.894716
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/49135
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 741-761, 2014. doi :10.1080/03086534.2014.894716. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/fich20en_ZA
dc.subjectKatangese secessionen_ZA
dc.subjectKatangese political leadersen_ZA
dc.subjectExternal machinationsen_ZA
dc.subjectKatangese national identityen_ZA
dc.titleRethinking the Katangese secessionen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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