224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international politics, many political actors would rather avoid it. In the past, nationalists have blamed ethnic chauvinists for fanning the embers of ethnicity, but... Read more
List of Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgments, 1. General Introduction, 2. Ethnicity and Theory in African Politics, 3. Ethnicity and Political Economy of Africa: A Conceptual Analysis, 4. The State and Ethnicity in Africa, 5. The Ethnic Dimensions of Nigeria's Post-Annulment Crisis: Case Studies from the South, 6. Ethnic Politics and the Decay of the State in Kenya, 7. The Ekutay: Ethnic Cabal and Politics in Sierra Leone, 8. The Limits and Possibilities of Conflict-Reduction Strategies in Africa's Polyethnic States, 9. Western Discourse and the Socio-Political Pathology of Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa, Selected Bibliography, Index
Biography
E. Udogu
