Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh (Contribution by), Will Kymlicka (Contribution by), Bruce Berman (Editor), Dickson Eyoh (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821442678
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Bruce Berman is a professor of political studies at Queen's University, Ontario.

Dickson Eyoh is the director of the African studies program at New College, University of Toronto.

Will Kymlicka holds the Canada Research

Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Contents Contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratic Nation-Building in Africa 2. Individuals’ Basic Security Needs the Limits of Democratization in Africa 3. Ethnicity, Bureaucracy & Democracy: The Politics of Trust 4. Nation-Building & Minority Rights: Comparing Africa & the West 5. Moral & Political Argument in Kenya 6. Contesting Local Citizenship: Liberalization & the Politics of Difference in Cameroon 7. The Burdens of the Past & the Challenges of the Present: Coloured Identity & the Rainbow Nation 8. Reaching the Limits of Universal Citizenship: 'Minority' Struggles in Botswana 9. Ethnicity & Nigerian Politics: The Past in the Yoruba Present 10. Hegemonic Enterprises & Instrumentalities of Survival: Ethnicity and Democracy in Kenya 11. ‘The dog that did not bark, or why Natal did not take off’: Ethnicity & Democratization in South Africa - KwaZulu Natal 12. Jomo Kenyatta & the Rise of the Ethno-Nationalist State in Kenya 13. Between Ethnic Memories & Colonial History in Senegal: The MFDC & the Struggle for Independence in Casamance 14. Ethnicities as 'First Nations' of the Congolese Nation-State: Some Preliminary Observations 15. Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratization in Nigeria 16. Multi-Level Governance in South Africa 17. Liberal Multiculturalism & the Problems of Institutional Instability 18. Conclusion: African Ethnic Politics & the Paradoxes of Democratic Development Index

Editorial Reviews

The contributors to Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa refreshingly and convincingly remind us that ethnic attachments and democracy need not be mutually exclusive.”—Marie-Eve Desrosiers, African Studies Review

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