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Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward, Hardback Book

Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward Hardback

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This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda.

Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards.

There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups.

However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries.

The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre.

Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends.

In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda.

The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement. Originally published in 1969.

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