TY - JOUR AU - Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. AB - PIERRE L. VAN DEN BERGHE and Nationalism in Language Africa South To state that and nationalism are related is language closely but one that needs in view of the loose of tautology, restating usage the term ’nationalism’ in the Third World and in the particularly African literature. In the nineteenth sense of the century European ’nationalism’ referred to a movement or a word, political process of self-consciousness based on a of common growing feeling ethnicity. Of the several criteria of a common has often ethnicity, language been the with in second one, paramount religion coming place. when one of German or Italian one Thus, speaks nationalism, means the of consciousness growth by primarily political people the same sharing language. NATIONALISM IN AFRICA In with social scientists have Africa, dealing contemporary greatly confused ’nationalism’ to mean analysis by using political broadly ‘anti-colonialism’.1 If the confusion had not too much stopped there, would have been faced with the of made, but, damage problem to use a term to refer to true nationalism in Africa, having descriptive the word ’tribalism’ was resorted to. from the invidious Apart of the word ’tribe’ and its derivatives have connotations ’tribalism’, been used in at least TI - Language and Nationalism in South Africa JF - Race DO - 10.1177/030639686700900103 DA - 1967-07-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/language-and-nationalism-in-south-africa-T4NB50H2A8 SP - 37 EP - 46 VL - 9 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -