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Paths toward the Nation: Islam, Community, and Early Nationalist
Mobilization in Eritrea, 1941-1961
by Joseph L. Venosa
Ohio University Press
*Paper*: 978-0-89680-289-6 | *eISBN*: 978-0-89680-487-6
*ABOUT THIS BOOK* | *AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY*
*ABOUT THIS BOOK*
In the early and mid-1940s, during the period of British wartime
occupation, community and religious leaders in the former Italian colony of
Eritrea engaged in a course of intellectual and political debate that
marked the beginnings of a genuine national consciousness across the
region. During the late 1940s and 1950s, the scope of these concerns slowly
expanded as the nascent nationalist movement brought together these Muslim
activists with the increasingly disaffected community of Eritrean
Christians.
The Eritrean Muslim League emerged as the first genuine proindependence
organization in the country to challenge both the Ethiopian government's
calls for annexation and international plans to partition Eritrea between
Sudan and Ethiopia. The league and its supporters also contributed to the
expansion of Eritrea's civil society, formulating the first substantial
arguments about what made Eritrea an inherently separate national entity.
These concepts were essential to the later transition from peaceful
political protest to armed rebellion against Ethiopian occupation. *Paths
toward the Nation* is the first study to focus exclusively on Eritrea's
nationalist movement before the start of the armed struggle in 1961.
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