Industrialisation and national identity in modern Africa

What’s on offer?

Elliott Green will discuss the effects of industrialisation on national identity in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. The talk will be followed by a Q&A with questions from the in-person and online audience.

What’s it about?

The late LSE Professor Ernest Gellner proposed that industrialisation generated modern national identities. But is this theory valid in the developing world?

You will hear from Elliott Green, who will argue that industrialisation and economic development have broadly had a strong positive impact on the development of nationalism in the African context. He will share thoughts on how and why industrialisation continues to transform national identities today.

Who’s leading the event?

• Elliott Green, Professor of Development Studies at LSE. 
• Chaired by Ken Shadlen, Professor of Development Studies at LSE. 

Open to

Open to all

Of particular interest to

Everyone

Event Booking details

This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience. For the in-person event: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis

Event booking deadline

Registration for the online event will open after 10am on Wednesday 9 October.