Samantha Balaton Chrimes: 2 books
Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
Dialogues between Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Africa, 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....
Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
Political Marginalisation of Kenya's Nubians
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears...