ELECCIONES NAMIBIAS 2004: ¿CRISIS DE LEGITIMIDAD EN CAPRIVI? REFLEXIONES ANTROPOLÓGICAS NAMIBIAN ELECTIONS 2004: CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY IN CAPRIVI? AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSAY
The debate on African boundaries, the dialectic between ethnicity and citizenship and finally, the configuration of the current poscolonial States, is a crucial field of study in Anthropology and africanist political science for decades these disciplines have separated from those which were traditionally done from the metropolis during the colonies, which were folkloric studies that represented the African cultures as exotic entities from an open ethnocentrism. The case of the State of Namibia, independent since 1990, is nowadays one of the most interesting for the smooth functioning of its democratic structures and the transparency of its electoral processes, according to the opinion of internacional observants. A brief reflexion on the mentioned points is proposed in this paper in the case of Namibia in the context of its electoral process in November of 2004. The phenomenon of voting is used here as useful tool to ascertain the legitimacy of the national sovereignity in this State, with a special emphasis on its questioning in light of the electoral outcome in the region of Caprivi.