TENSIONS OF NATIONALISM: THE MZABI STUDENT MISSIONS IN TUNIS AND THE POLITICS OF ANTICOLONIALISM

This article examines the significant yet largely overlooked role of the Mzabis, a community from the northern edges of the Algerian desert, in Algerian and Tunisian anticolonialism and nationalism. In so doing, it pursues two aims: first, to shed light on the importance of Tunis to the politicization of the Mzabis in the 1920s and to their induction into local and regional anticolonial and national movements; and second, to highlight the tensions of subsuming regional identities into overarching national identities by focusing on Mzabi political activists’ negotiation of the relationship between the Mzab and Algeria as a national project. The article also explores the spectrum of political possibilities and alternatives envisioned by Mzabis as they participated in religious reform, anticolonial, and nationalist movements. This spectrum, I argue, conveys the fluid relationship between local, national, and regional identities, thus undermining teleological readings of national identity formation.

Toenemend kerk

The church - more and more The Hervormde Kerk in Suidelike Afrika (Reformed Church in Southern Africa), the mission church of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika, must become increasingly a true missionary church in its own right by giving attention, inter alia, to the following aspects; extension of the church by way of life, building facilities, dimensional missions, student missions, attitude missions, structure missions, coming-of-age missions, prayer missions, youth missions, team missions, church dispersion missions, church naming missions, media missions, unitary missions and truth missions.