Abstract
This paper explores the concepts of 'nation-state' and 'political unity' in Africa through the case study of Somalia. It argues that Somalia as 'failed state' offers the possibility to understand, like in an upside down mirror, the artificiality and ineffectiveness of the modern 'nation-state' structure imposed on Africans with colonization and inherited at independencies. It argues for the need of imagining a more African oriented paradigm of social coexistence that could free from the foreign alienating model and allow for the emergence of a more African born expression of socio-cultural political organization.
This paper explores the concepts of 'nation-state' and 'political unity' in Africa through the case study of Somalia. It argues that Somalia as 'failed state' offers the possibility to understand, like in an upside down mirror, the artificiality and ineffectiveness of the modern 'nation-state' structure imposed on Africans with colonization and inherited at independencies. It argues for the need of imagining a more African oriented paradigm of social coexistence that could free from the foreign alienating model and allow for the emergence of a more African born expression of socio-cultural political organization.
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