Zaire (The Congo)

Kasper Hoffmann

doi:10.1002/9781118663202.wberen616

Zaire (The Congo)

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Ethnicity and nationalism are formative social and political identities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The colonial state solidified hitherto ambiguous boundaries between social and political identities by deploying firm ethnic categories to classify the native peoples and by confining them in ethnic territories. Although unitary nationalism emerged at the end of colonization, intra- and interethnic competition has dominated politics in the postcolonial era. The single-party state of Mobutu tried to monopolize the use of ethnicity in the public realm, but its lack of legitimacy paved the way for the proliferation of ethnic competition across the country. The Congolese Wars have entrenched ethnic identities in the country.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, andNationalism
Editors	John Stone, Rutledge M. Dennis, Polly Rizova, Anthony D. Smith, Xiaoshuo Hou
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Wiley
Publication date	Mar 2016
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4051-8978-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen616
Publication status	Published - Mar 2016
Externally published	Yes

Series	Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences

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Zaire (The Congo). / Hoffmann, Kasper.
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, andNationalism. ed. / John Stone; Rutledge M. Dennis; Polly Rizova; Anthony D. Smith; Xiaoshuo Hou. 1. ed. Wiley, 2016. (Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences ).

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