Identity in Africa / African identity!

Bloom, L (1998) Identity and ethnic relations in Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-529-3.

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  • Kevin Durrheim

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https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/2001/n27a12

Abstract

I am probably not the best person to review Len Bloom's collection of essays. Although I share with him an interest in identity and social relations in Africa, we come from different worlds: geographically, theoretically, and generationally. At times I was astounded by the vigour of Bloom's political commitment to freedom and the manner in which he translated this politics into his everyday life. I found a companion social psychologist who insists on a political and politicised psychology. At the same time, I found myself baulking at some of his arguments, whose humanism and universalism seemed to be of a previous age.

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2026-01-26

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Durrheim, K. (2026). Identity in Africa / African identity! Bloom, L (1998) Identity and ethnic relations in Africa. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-529-3. PINS-Psychology in Society, (27). https://doi.org/10.17159//2309-8708/2001/n27a12

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No. 27 (2001)

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Book Reviews

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