Negotiating statehood : dynamics of power and domination in Africa / edited by Tobias Hagmann and Didier Péclard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa / Tobias Hagmann and Didier Péclard {u2013} 2. Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo{u2013}Ugandan Border / Timothy Raeymaekers {u2013} 3. The Struggle Continues? The Spectre of Liberation, Memory Politics and {u2018}War Veterans{u2019} in Namibia / Lalli Metsola -- 4. Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia: Renegotiating Identity and Borders along the Oromo{u2013}Somali Ethnic Frontiers / Asnake Kefale {u2013}5. Facing Up to the Centre: The Emergence of Regional Elite Associations in Angola{u2019}s Political Transition Process / Inge Ruigrok -- 6. The People, the Power and the Public Service: Political Identification during Guinea{u2019}s General Strikes in 2007 / Anita Schroven -- 7. The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-socialist Mozambique / Jason Sumich {u2013} 8. Maintenant, on sait qui est qui: Statehood and Political Reconfiguration in Northern Côte d{u2019}Ivoire / Till Förster -- 9. Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland / Marleen Renders and Ulf Terlinden -- 10. Researching African Statehood Dynamics: Negotiability and its Limits / Martin Doornbos

Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary Africa. Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, and what these processes are all about Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical and analytical insights into these processes in eight different country studies in Africa. Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood in Africa