Nation and development in Guinea-Bissau: the contribution of INEP and Soronda
Guinea-Bissau – History – 1974-
Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (Guiné-Bissau)
Soronda: Revista de Estudos Guineenses
Social development
National consciousness
Ethnicity
This work seeks to understand the ways in which different researchers coped with the
relation between Nation and development in post-independence Guinea-Bissau, resorting to
the works published in Soronda: Revista de Estudos Guineenses (journal of Guinean studies). A brief background of the establishment of the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (National Instituto of Studies and Research, INEP) and of the publishing of Soronda will be sketched, in a bid to identify the relevance of the discussions around Nation and development within the global concerns of the INEP and Soronda, stressing the main themes, qualifying the most relevant contributors, and following the publication flux in regard of the political, economical, and social processes that developed along this period in Guinea-Bissau, in the African continent, and in the world more broadly. Dwelling on a corpus selected contributions, and in view of a secondary bibliography dealing with post-independence African intellectual production, the treatment given to the issues of Nation and national consciousness, the problems related to national unity, and the relation between State and development will be analyzed.