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I discussed earlier the notion of political community and showed why and how it was appropriate to think of the African nation-state as an imagined community. This is important. For however we may regret the salience of the nation-state, it is, as Benedict Anderson shows, the key contextual determinant of national and international politics today.2 Without an adequate understanding of the African post-colonial nation-state there can be no understanding of contemporary African politics.3
Different from L. Binder et al., 1971.
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See also: F.H. Hinsley, Nationalism and the International System (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Which Marxism failed to recognise. See: Ronaldo Munck, The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism (London: Zed Press, 1986)
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A heavily overworked area of African politics. For one example, see D. Smock and K. Bentsi-Enchill (eds), The Search for National Integration in Africa (New York: Free Press, 1975).
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Chabal, P. (1992). The Crisis of Nationality and Sovereignty. In: Power in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12468-8_7
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