Citizenship in Africa: the law of belonging

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. International Law and the Right to a Nationality -- 1.1. What's in a Word: Citizenship or Nationality? -- 1.2. The Regulation of Nationality in International Law -- 1.3. The Content of Citizenship Rights -- 1.4. The Relevance of the Right to a Nationality in Africa -- Part II: Empire to Independence: The Invention of Nationality in Africa -- 2. Membership in the Pre-Colonial Era -- 3. The European Colonial Period -- 3.1. British Territories -- 3.2. French Territories -- 3.3. Others -- 4. Transition to Independence -- 4.1. The Ottoman Empire -- 4.2. British Territories -- 4.3. French Territories -- 4.4. Others -- Part III: African Nationality Laws Since Independence -- 5. Trends and Patterns in Nationality Law -- 5.1. Acquisition at Birth: The Balance of Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis -- 5.2. Gender Equality -- 5.3. Dual Nationality -- 5.4. Naturalisation -- 5.5. Loss and Deprivation -- 5.6. Making Sense of Legal Amendments -- 6. Identification and Registration -- 6.1. Proof of Nationality: The Civil/Common Law Divide -- 6.2. Civil Registration -- 6.3. Child Protection -- 6.4. Identification and Nationality -- 6.5. The Relationship Between the Formal and the Informal -- Part IV: Country Case Studies -- 7. Who is a Native? -- 7.1. Dual Citizenship, Denationalisation and Disenfranchisement in Zimbabwe -- 7.2. The 'Lebanese' of Sierra Leone -- 7.3. 'Asians' and other 'others' in Kenya and Uganda -- 7.4. Côte d'Ivoire's War of Conjunctions: The 'and' and the 'or' -- 7.5. The Banyarwanda of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo -- 7.6. Mauritania's Efforts to Enforce a 'Nation-State' -- 7.7. 'Indigeneity' in Nigeria: The Links Between Local and National -- 8. State Successions Since Independence -- 8.1. Eritrea/Ethiopia: State Succession and Mass Expulsion