[PDF] Ethnicity Democracy In Africa eBook

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 36,99 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 : Bruce Berman
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821415702

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A useful collection for students as the interest in the politics of ethnicity continues.

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780852558607

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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? North America: Ohio U Press

Author : Bethwell A. Ogot
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,57 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.

Author : Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2015-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1472440684

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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 : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9789171064417

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Province of South Africa

Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1316239489

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.