Negotiating the nation: Ethnicity, nationalism and nation-building in independent Namibia

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 427-450

  Fosse, Leif John ^a  

^a China Programme and Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; IDENTITY FORMATION; NATION BUILDING; NATIONALISM;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 0031409809     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1354-5078.1997.00427.x     Document Type: Article

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