Essays about: "decolonisation"

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  1. 21. A study of pan-African ideas of a collective identity in Africa

    University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

    Author : Anna Gabrielsson; [2011]
    Keywords : African Union; pan-Africanism; identity; Africa; regional identity; social;

    Abstract : The intention of this paper has been to look at how pan-African ideas about a common identity hav e been expressed and developed on the African continent since the period of decolonisation in the 1960s. By using social constructivist identity-theory I have looked at how identity can be constructed by the use of myths, stories, symbols and ‘othering’. READ MORE