Sons of Which Soil? The Language and Politics of Autochthony in Eastern D.R. Congo

African Studies Review | September 1, 2006| | Copyright

Abstract:

The recent wars in the DR Congo have led to a marked upsurge in both elite and popular discourse and violence around belonging and exclusion, expressed through the vernacular of "autochthony." Dangerously flexible in its politics, nervous and paranoid in its language, unmoored fr om geographic or ethnocultural specificity, borrowing energy both from present conflicts and deep-seated mythologies of the past, the idea of autochthony has permitted comparatively localized instances of violence in the DRC to inscribe themselves upward into regional, and even continental logics, with ...

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