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The Uncertainty of Nationalism: Alienation, the Middle Class and Narrative in Maputo, Mozambique.

By Dr Jason Sumich, Research Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Discussant: Amanda Hammar, MSO Professor of African Studies, Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen University

Recent debates concerning politics in Africa and beyond have tended to focus on the practices of rule. The ethnography in this article outlines the perspective of members of the ‘middle class' in Maputo, Mozambique. I argue that the underlying legitimacy of the state's nationalist vision, the reason one has the right to rule, is as important as the policies enacted. Read more