Modernity as Marginality: The making and the experience of peripherality in the Bijagó islands (Guinea-Bissau)

In this article I will trace back the feelings of peripherality and marginality expressed by a group of young men in the Bijagó Islands to the historical and political processes that marginalised the rural communities in Guinea-Bissau in the late colonial and post-independence period and excluded th...

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Main Author: Lorenzo Bordonaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2010-05-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/103