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African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul

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African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul
African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul

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African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul

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One such commonality can be referred to as a quest for being. Indeed, this quest for being has always underpinned African discourses and practices, either in postcolonial approaches, either in intellectual traditions, either in popular productions. These multiple practices reveal how, in certain circumstances, identity, as a product of historical wills of knowledge, power and truth, can be questioned as a site of possession and entrapment. How is one to be beyond colonial possession? Or beyond postcolonial authoritarian rule? Or beyond eurocentrism? African quests for being have always been quests for freedom. And they impose a debate on regimes of citizenship. Active citizenship is not merely a by-product of formal political systems; it is one that challenges them from the outside while actualizing the lessons of historical liberation struggles. As times goes by, the right to be still stands. The chapters of this book were originally published as a special issue in .

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