| Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa Contributor(s): Berman, Bruce (Author), Eyoh, Dickson (Contribution by), Kymlicka, Will (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0821415700 ISBN-13: 9780821415702 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $33.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: 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 the ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | World - African |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2004063556 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 6.48" W x 9.16" (1.20 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |