Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, History
| Author: | ISBN: | 9780821442678 | |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press | Publication: | September 30, 2004 |
| Imprint: | Ohio University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9780821442678 |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| Publication: | September 30, 2004 |
| Imprint: | Ohio University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
