1 Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
Tobias Hagmann and Didier Péclard 1

2 Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo–Ugandan Border
Timothy Raeymaekers 24

3 The Struggle Continues? The Spectre of Liberation, Memory Politics and ‘War Veterans’ in Namibia
Lalli Metsola 49

4 Federal Restructuring in Ethiopia: Renegotiating Identity and Borders along the Oromo–Somali Ethnic Frontiers
Asnake Kefale 74

5 Facing Up to the Centre: The Emergence of Regional Elite Associations in Angola’s Political Transition Process
Inge Ruigrok 95

6 The People, the Power and the Public Service: Political Identification during Guinea’s General Strikes in 2007
Anita Schroven 116

7 The Party and the State: Frelimo and Social Stratification in Post-socialist Mozambique
Jason Sumich 134

8 Maintenant, on sait qui est qui: Statehood and Political Reconfiguration in Northern Côte d’Ivoire
Till Förster 154

9 Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland
Marleen Renders and Ulf Terlinden 177

10 Researching African Statehood Dynamics: Negotiability and its Limits
Martin Doornbos 200

Index 222