Ethnicity & democracy in Africa/
Ethnicity & democracy in Africa/
edited by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will Kymlicka.
- Oxford : J. Currey ; 2004.
- xv, 336p.: 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.
0821415697
Political anthropology--Africa.
Ethnicity--Political aspects--Africa.
Democracy--Africa.
Multiculturalism--Africa.
Africa--Ethnic relations.
Africa--Politics and government.
Africa--Social life and customs.
DUCE GN645.E8323
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.
0821415697
Political anthropology--Africa.
Ethnicity--Political aspects--Africa.
Democracy--Africa.
Multiculturalism--Africa.
Africa--Ethnic relations.
Africa--Politics and government.
Africa--Social life and customs.
DUCE GN645.E8323