African Religious Movements—Types and Dynamics

In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 531-549

Abstract

For those who follow African events closely it is the phenomenon of nationalism which attracts greatest attention. It was a rising sense of national identity which threw off the colonial yoke, and this ongoing creation and exaltation of culture and society at the national level can either foster or frustrate the creation of viable political units. We are therefore obliged to keep abreast of African nationalism if we are to understand the course of events and forecast the shape of things to come in this developing continent.