caa a22 4500 388036966 CHVBK 20190511134217.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1161167 doi S000197200004883X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1161167 Lambert Michael C. Violence and the war of words: ethnicity v. nationalism in the Casamance [Elektronische Daten] [Michael C. Lambert] Since 1982 the Mouvement des forces démocratique casamançais has been fighting for the independence of the Casamance region of Senegal. In 1989, when the Mouvement initiated a sustained military campaign, Senegal's official and independent press began to provide intensive coverage of its activities and objectives. This article documents the arguments for and against Casamançais independence as documented by Senegal's press in the year following the resurgence of this conflict. The Mouvement's leadership has consistently maintained that its efforts to win independence for the Casamance are legitimate because France created the Casamance. The French, it argues, never intended the Casamance to be administratively incorporated into Senegal. Conversely, those opposed to the Mouvement have attempted to delegitimise its activities by claiming that it represents the interests of the Jola, just one of the Casamance's many ethnic groups. It is argued that the Senegalese government and other opponents of the Mouvement have attempted to label the independence movement an ethnic movement because of a distinction in African political ideology between nationalism and ethnicity. According to this ideology, nationalism, and other legitimate forms of political mobilisation, should represent a plural constituency. Those that represent the narrow interests of a single ethnic group are not considered legitimate. Copyright © International African Institute 1998 Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 585-602 0001-9720 68:4<585 1998 68 AFR https://doi.org/10.2307/1161167 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1161167 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lambert Michael C. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Africa Cambridge University Press 68/4(1998-10), 585-602 0001-9720 68:4<585 1998 68 AFR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 388036966 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge