Migration and Africa: On the urgent need to think beyond the nation-state

My latest publication on Pambazuka!

Abstract:

European powers imposed the nation-state on Africa through colonialism. But even after African independencies, mainstream discourses and government policies have amplified the idea that sedentariness and the state are the only acceptable mode of modernity. Migration is portrayed as a menace to the societies where the migrants wish to settle

LINK:

ENG -> here
POR -> aqui
FRA -> ici