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AFRICAN NATIONALISM FROM APARTHEID TO POST-APAR...

With the help of discourse analysis and ideology critique  this study establishes a theoretical
framework to analyse African nationalism in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.
Following the constructivist school of thought  the study adopts the assumption that nations
areimagined communitieswhich are built oninvented traditions. It shows that historically and
analytically  there are two distinct concepts of
nationalism:constitutionalandethnicnationalism. These concepts can be retraced in South Africa
where they form the central antagonism of black political thought. The study of post-apartheid
African nationalism is placed in its historical perspective by focusing on the major milestones
of African National Congress'discourse before and during apartheid. It demonstrates that
throughout its history  the ANC was characterized by the rivalry between concepts
ofconstitutionalandethnicnationalism. While the former concept found its counterpart in
Charterism  the latter was adopted by African nationalism. Though the ANC in its majority
embraced Charterism  it continually played with the appeal of an exclusive  racial nationalism.
The theoretical and historical contextualisation of the study allows for the investigation of
the various dimensions of current ANC discourse on African nationalism. The study analyses
different concepts of nationalism employed by the ANC and compares these models to those
discussed in academic literature. It finds that in post-apartheid South Africa  the historical
dichotomy of Africanist and Charterist nationalism persists within the ANC. While early
concepts of nationalism like Mandela'srainbow nationand Mbeki'sI am an Africanpaid tribute to
Charterism  the discourses on theAfrican Renaissanceand Mbeki's two-nationaddress at least
leave openings for Africanist interpretations.

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