The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea

Abstract

Jennifer Riggan‟s book, recently issued, “The Struggle State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization and the Education of Eritrea” is a volume of 259 pages. This field work based comprehensive work is the most impressive contribution that could show the lived conditions of Eritreans after independence and Ethio-Eritrea border war time. The book comprising detail information of Eritrean nationalism project of the state and the ways it construct the sentiment are through mass militarization and the schooling system, these issues are interrelated each other. The book contains various matters organized into five parts included in to three broad issues about nationalism, mass militarization and education system that are intertwined each other. It discusses the Eritrean state on the making as the party‟s agenda, construction of the statehood of Eritrea on the mind of the youth through intensive and obligatory military training that would thought to imagine state.