Abstract
Kohl offers a much-needed socio-anthropological analysis of the Cape Verdean community in Guinea-Bissau. Cape Verdeans have integrated to various degrees into Bissau-Guinean society but have been repeatedly, until recently, identified as a “cause of trouble” in the country’s brief history. From both late colonial and postcolonial perspectives, Kohl offers a more nuanced exploration of Cape Verdeans’ culture and identity, and their role in both the struggle for independence from Portugal and postcolonial nation- and state-building in Guinea-Bissau. “Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict” demonstrates that the relationship between Cape Verdeans and the rest of the Bissau-Guinean population, as well as the former’s role in the country’s politics, has been far more complex than often assumed.
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Kohl, C. (2017). Ethnicity as Trope of Political Belonging and Conflict: Cape Verdean Identity and Agency in Guinea-Bissau. In: Højbjerg, C., Knörr, J., Murphy, W. (eds) Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95013-3_11
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