Punctuated Places: Narrating Space in Burundi
When Rwanda and Burundi parted ways at independence and dissolved their colonial union of Ruanda-Urundi, Burundi's Catholic newspaper Ndongozi celebrated this scission as a matter of territorial inevitability. Here, Russell takes the case of Burundi and Rwanda's division at independence to...
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| Published in: | The International journal of African historical studies 2019-01, Vol.52 (1), p.133-158 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | When Rwanda and Burundi parted ways at independence and dissolved their colonial union of Ruanda-Urundi, Burundi's Catholic newspaper Ndongozi celebrated this scission as a matter of territorial inevitability. Here, Russell takes the case of Burundi and Rwanda's division at independence to focus on the political imagination of territory, how political actors invoked images of landscape, movement and people across past, present and future. In the course of decolonization, alternatives to inevitable separation presented different imaginations of territory itself: as an expanding field of human cooperation, as a space defined by movement within or without, as an encroaching danger of foreign incursion and submersion, or a violated unity defined by the punctures of sovereignty and settlement within it. |
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| ISSN: | 0361-7882 2326-3016 |