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Namhla Matshanda
- Name Namhla Matshanda
- Organisation
- African Studies, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- N.T.Matshanda@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- State-making,Horn of Africa,Political identities and citizenship,Territorial borders
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/african_studies/matshanda_namhla
Research Interests:
State theory, the (un)making of the state in post-colonial Africa, comparative colonial history, political identities, African borders and borderlands.
PhD Topic:
My research is primarily concerned with patterns of state-making in the Horn of Africa from the late colonial period. The focus is on making sense of the highly contested nature of the region's territorial borders, I do this by exploring processes of identity and place making on the eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia (Somaliland) border and borderlands.
Supervisors:
Dr. Sara Rich Dorman
Prof. Paul Nugent
Academic Qualifications:
MA International Relations- University of the Witwatersrand (2009)
BA Honours- University of the Western Cape (2007)
This page was published on 16 November 2011