The State and national identity in Lesotho

摘要: 'Should Lesotho be incorporated into the "new" South Africa?' is a much debated question throughout Lesotho. It actually an old question, but its currency today stems from political transformation of Africa. Proponents point to Lesotho's economic dependence on Africa, and tenuous existence as state since birth in 19th century, suggest that citizens might better off if became part Responses inevitably incorporate nationalist pride, recounting history successful resistance, first against colonial settlers, later incorporation Africa apartheid. But proponents answer African nemesis crumbling ask what, therefore, there resist? Consensus rare, for really rhetorical summation real concerns country's inhabitants: what future state, hence, citizens?; it Basotho?; significance contemporary circumstances?