Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
My research is on regionalism among Congolese migrants of South Africa with the focus on
the tensions between Baswahili (Kivu inhabitants) and Bato ya mangala (Kinshasa
inhabitants) in the city of Cape Town. The two groups incarnate the geopolitical East and
West of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), respectively. I locate the tensions
between these two regional groups in Cape Town in the DRC�s politics as well as that of the
host country, South Africa. In the DRC, the tensions between Baswahili and Bato ya mangala
are rooted in the identity politics and discourse of the post-Mobutu era, mainly that which
emerged from the major events that have shaped the dynamics of the DRC�s crisis since the
late 1990s.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Identity, Regionalism, Congolese migrants, Politics, Cape Town