Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

by Dickson Eyoh

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821415700
• ISBN13: 9780821415702
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"