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A state in search of Archipelago


Abstract

In the Comoros, the state building faces the geographical features of the country (insularity and archipelity), originally different social identities. Several solutions have been adopted to transcend identity and territorial peculiarities, like the constitutional amendment. Since 1975, when the archipelago gained independence, the constitution was revised nearly five times without can't absorb the political crises separatist or irredentist. 

Keywords

insularity, ileitis, archipelity, remoteness, Africa, Comoros Islands, State, nation, identity

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