Negotiating Statehood

Tobias Hagmann is a Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich and a Fellow of the Rift Valley Institute. He is the co-editor of Contested Power: Traditional Authorities and Multi-party Elections in Ethiopia. Didier Peclard is Senior Researcher at the Swiss Peace Foundation in Bern, where he works on statehood in societies after violent conflicts, and Lecturer in political science at the University of Basel. He has published extensively on nationalism, religion and state formation in Angola.

Notes on Contributors vii 1 Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa Tobias Hagmann and Didier Peclard 1 2 Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo Ugandan Border Timothy Raeymaekers 24 3 The Struggle Continues? The Spectre of Liberation, Memory Politics and War Veterans in Namibia Lalli Metsola 49 4 Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia: Renegotiating Identity and Borders along the Oromo Somali Ethnic Frontiers Asnake Kefale 74 5 Facing Up to the Centre: The Emergence of Regional Elite Associations in Angola s Political Transition Process Inge Ruigrok 95 6 The People, the Power and the Public Service: Political Identification during Guinea s General Strikes in 2007 Anita Schroven 116 7 The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-socialist Mozambique Jason Sumich 134 8 Maintenant, on sait qui est qui: Statehood and Political Reconfiguration in Northern Cote d Ivoire Till Forster 154 9 Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland Marleen Renders and Ulf Terlinden 177 10 Researching African Statehood Dynamics: Negotiability and its Limits Martin Doornbos 200 Index 222