[PDF] Ethnicity Democracy And Citizenship In Africa eBook

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821442678

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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.

Author : Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131714080X

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As an ethnic minority the Nubians of Kenya are struggling for equal citizenship by asserting themselves as indigenous and autochthonous to Kibera, one of Nairobi’s most notorious slums. Having settled there after being brought by the British colonial authorities from Sudan as soldiers, this appears a peculiar claim to make. It is a claim that illuminates the hierarchical nature of Kenya’s ethnicised citizenship regime and the multi-faceted nature of citizenship itself. This book explores two kinds of citizenship deficits; those experienced by the Nubians in Kenya and, more centrally, those which represent the limits of citizenship theories. The author argues for an understanding of citizenship as made up of multiple component parts: status, rights and membership, which are often disaggregated through time, across geographic spaces and amongst different people. This departure from a unitary language of citizenship allows a novel analysis of the central role of ethnicity in the recognition of political membership and distribution of political goods in Kenya. Such an analysis generates important insights into the risks and possibilities of a relationship between ethnicity and democracy that is of broad, global relevance.

Author : Aquiline S. J. Tarimo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9956579998

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This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political transformation. Such a framework is indispensable not only for challenging the politics of exclusion and marginalization, but also for reconstructing fractured social relationships. The test of its validity and relevancy is not whether it accounts for particular traditions, but whether it provides a framework through which we can comprehend the dynamics of ethnic identities as an avenue for promoting participatory governance and democratic accountability. An interdisciplinary study of this kind brings forth practical and theoretical contributions to the evolving concepts of ethnicity and citizenship.

Author : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789171064417

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Author : Osita Agbu
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789171066992

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This Discussion Paper explores the challenges that ethnicity poses for democratisation and development in Africa. It provides an overview of the literature on ethnicity and democratisation and an analysis of the trends on the continent since the end of the Cold War. In this regard, it critically examines perspectives on the impact of ethnicity on democracy and analyses the ethnicity-citizenship nexus in the context of the national democratic question in Africa. This provides the basis for the analysis of emerging challenges facing Africa and the way forward. The paper provides additional insights into the ongoing debates about democracy and the nation-state question in Africa and is of interest to scholars, practitioners and the general reader.

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN :

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"The 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?".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Lahra Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107328802

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Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms of the past two decades have been inextricably linked with the battle over the 'right to have rights'. Professor Lahra Smith's work advances the notion of meaningful citizenship, referring to the ways in which rights are exercised, or the effective practice of citizenship. Using data from Ethiopia and developing a historically informed study of language policy, ethnicity and gender identities, Smith analyzes the contestation over citizenship that engages the state, social movements and individuals in substantive ways. By combining original data on language policy in contemporary Ethiopia with detailed historical study and a focus on ethnicity, citizenship and gender, this work brings a fresh approach to Ethiopian political development and contemporary citizenship concerns across Africa.

Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781588268945

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How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new forms of popular participation for citizenship and democracy? Drawing on a decade of research from the cross-national Afrobarometer project, the authors of this seminal collection explore the emerging role of mass politics in Africa¿s fledgling democracies.

Author : Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN :

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The papers included in this volume are selections from the forty contributions that were made at the seminar in Kericho, Kenya from 28-31 1995. The Theme of the seminar was Ethnicity, Nationalism and Democracy in Africa.