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Ethnicity & democracy in Africa / edited by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh & Will Kymlicka.

Berman, Bruce (Bruce J.) (Added Author). Eyoh, Dickson, 1954- (Added Author). Kymlicka, Will. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0852558619 (James Currey : cloth)
ISBN: 0852558600 (James Currey : pbk.)
ISBN: 0821415697 (Ohio Univ. Press : cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0821415700 (Ohio Univ. Press : pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xv, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Oxford : J. Currey ; c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction : ethnicity & the politics of democratic nation-building in Africa / Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka -- 2. Individuals' basic security needs & the limits of democratization in Africa / Peter Ekeh -- 3. Ethnicity, bureaucracy & democracy : the politics of trust / Bruce Berman -- 4. Nation-building & minority rights : comparing Africa & the west / Will Kymlicka -- 5. Moral & political argument in Kenya / John Lonsdale -- 6. Contesting local citizenship : liberalization & the politics of difference in Cameroon / Dickson Eyoh -- 7. The burdens of the past & the challenges of the present : coloured identity & the rainbow nation / Cheryl Hendricks -- 8. Reaching the limits of universal citizenship : 'minority' struggles in Botswana / Jacqueline S. Solway -- 9. Ethnicity & Nigerian politics : the past in the Yoruba present / Toyin Falola -- 10. Hegemonic enterprises & instrumentalities of survival : ethnicity and democracy in Kenya / E. S. Atieno Odhiambo -- 11. 'The dog that did not bark, or why Natal did not take off' : ethnicity & democratization in South Africa - KwaZulu Natal / Shula Marks --

12. Jomo Kenyatta & the rise of the ethno-nationalist state in Kenya / Githu Muigai -- 13. Between ethnic memories & colonial history in Senegal : the MFDC & the struggle for independence in Casamance / Mamadou Diouf -- 14. Ethnicities as 'first nations' of the Congolese nation-state : some preliminary observations / Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Leonard N'Sanda Buleli -- 15. Ethnicity & the politics of democratization in Nigeria / A. Raufu Mustapha -- 16. Multi-level governance in South Africa / Richard Simeon and Christina Murray -- 17. Liberal multiculturalism & the problems of institutional instability / John Boye Ejobowah -- 18. Conclusion : African ethnic politics & the paradoxes of democratic development / Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka.