Fronteiras Modernas Africanas: suas consequências para a formação da consciência nacional em Angola

Abstract

The analysis of the issues created around modern African borders is of supreme importance to understand the current geopolitical scenario in Africa. Thus, the objective of the present work is to identify the consequences caused by the imposition of national borders, which in turn had consequences for the formation of national consciousness in Angola, as well as in other African states. To achieve this goal, a conceptual discussion and bibliographic review was carried out, searching to understand the process of construction and imposition of new national borders by Europeans, during Imperialism started at the end of the 19th century. Therefore, it was concluded that the imposition of African national borders really had consequences for the process of building Angolan national consciousness, with Tribalism being a consequence of this. To understand the effects of tribalism on Angolan society, it was used Pepetela's novel, entitled Mayombe, which presents the challenges imposed by cultural differences during the Angolan liberation struggle.