National Identity and Democracy in Africa

This collaborative series, entitled Identity? Theory, History, Politics, consists of three companion volumes and emanates from the partnership between the French Institute (IFAS), the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD, formerly FGD) and the HSRC. Volume I, based on the 1997 conference held in Pretoria, is almost exclusively on South Africa shortly after that country’s transition to democracy while Volume II, entitled Shifting African Identities was based on the 1998 Cape Town conference, and provided comparative analyses from Africanist scholars.

Product Information

Format:

148mm x 210mm

Pages:

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2131-4

Publish Year:

1999

Rights:

World Rights

Professor Jo Lorentzen is a chief research specialist in the Education, Science, and Skills Development Research Programme. He holds a Masters degree from the American University in Washington, and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and has taught at universities in Eastern Europe, Italy, France, and the United States.

Before joining the HSRC, he was Associate Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business School and spent the 2003/04 academic year on sabbatical at the School of Development Studies at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, where he is now an honorary research fellow.