03991nam 22005772 450 991100927110332120170908162630.01-78204-992-410.1515/9781782049920(CKB)4970000000101513(MiAaPQ)EBC29796516(Au-PeEL)EBL29796516(OCoLC)1355217991(DE-B1597)674634(DE-B1597)9781782049920(UkCbUP)CR9781782049920(EXLCZ)99497000000010151320170526d2004|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEthnicity & democracy in Africa /edited by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will Kymlicka1st ed.Oxford :J. Currey,2004.1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2017).Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I Ethnicity & Democracy in Historical & Comparative Perspective -- I Introduction Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratic Nation-Building in Africa -- 2 Individuals' Basic Security Needs & the Limits of Democracy in Africa -- 3 Ethnicity, Bureaucracy & Democracy: The Politics of Trust -- 4 Nation-Building & Minority Rights: Comparing Africa & the West -- II The Dynamics of Ethnic Development in Africa -- 5 Moral & Political Argument in Kenya -- 6 Contesting Local Citizenship: Liberalization & the Politics of Difference in Cameroon -- 7 The Burdens of the Past & Challenges of the Present: Coloured Identity & the 'Rainbow Nation5 -- 8 Reaching the Limits of Universal Citizenship: 'Minority5 Struggles in Botswana -- 9 Ethnicity & Nigerian Politics: The Past in the Yoruba Present -- III Ethnicity & the Politics of Democratization -- 10 Hegemonic Enterprises & Instrumentalities of Survival: Ethnicity & Democracy in Kenya -- 11 'The dog that did not bark, or why Natal did not take off5: Ethnicity & Democracy 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 -- IV Ethnicity & Institutional Design in Africa -- 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 -- IndexThe politics of identity and ethnicity are resurgent. Civil society, whose revival was much vaunted, was riven by communal tensions particularly of ethnicity and religion. The contributors address questions such as: Why is ethnicity a political problem? How is the problem manifested? Which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building? North America: Ohio U PressPolitical anthropologyAfricaEthnicityPolitical aspectsAfricaDemocracyAfricaMulticulturalismAfricaAfricaEthnic relationsAfricaPolitics and governmentAfricaSocial life and customsPolitical anthropologyEthnicityPolitical aspectsDemocracyMulticulturalism305.8/0096Berman Bruce1942-Eyoh Dickson1954-Kymlicka WillUkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9911009271103321Ethnicity & democracy in Africa4429867UNINA