ABSTRACT Histories of decolonization in Africa tend to present a unidirectional process with the eventual independent states as the seemingly natural outcome, thus ignoring or distorting actions and actors with transnational or translocal agendas. In the case of Burundi, decolonization is presented either as national liberation or as a prelude to ethnic conflict within a national frame of reference. Both strands eclipse the initial exclusion of Burundian independence, which hit the Muslim or Swahili minority in Burundi’s urban centers. In this paper, I demonstrate how from 1955 onwards several Muslims in Burundian towns along Lake Tanganyika contributed significantly to the creation of a state from which they were eventually excluded. Thus, analogous to the French Revolution, the Burundian decolonization devoured its children. I continue explaining how political stances of some Muslim protagonists gradually diverged in light of the exclusionary politics of colonial authorities and Burundian nationalists. The omission of such local and translocal, national and transnational histories stands in the way of understanding – both of and in Burundi.

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革命的孩子：布隆迪非殖民化进程中城市穆斯林的公民身份

摘要非洲的非殖民化历史倾向于呈现出一个单向的过程，最终的独立国家是看似自然的结果，因此无视或扭曲了具有跨国或跨地方议程的行动和参与者。就布隆迪而言，非殖民化既可以作为民族解放，也可以作为民族参照框架内种族冲突的序幕。两条线都使最初的布隆迪独立性黯然失色，这使布隆迪市中心的穆斯林或斯瓦希里少数民族遭受打击。在本文中，我演示了自1955年以来，坦Tang尼喀湖沿岸的布隆迪城镇中的几个穆斯林如何为建立一个最终被排斥在外的国家做出重大贡献。因此，类似于法国大革命，布隆迪的非殖民化吞噬了其子女。我将继续解释，鉴于殖民地当局和布隆迪民族主义者的排斥政治，一些穆斯林主角的政治立场是如何逐渐分化的。对布隆迪和布隆迪的这种本地和跨本地，民族和跨国历史的遗漏妨碍了人们的理解。