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ETHNICITY IN AFRICA
Towards a Positive Approach
by Seyoum Y. Hameso
ISBN: 0595181449
Published by iUniversity Press, 2001
Table of Contents
1 Overview 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Ethnicity in Africa 3
1.3 Ethnicity defined: concept and theory 7
1.4 Theoretical perspectives on ethnicity 11
2 Ethnic Groups in Africa: The Main Features 19
2.1 Introduction 19
2.2 Collective community with physical space 20
2.3 Language 23
2.4 Culture, social and political organizations 30
3 Political Economy of Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts 35
3.1 Introduction 35
3.2 Ethnicity as politics and economics 37
3.3 Ethnic Conflicts 43
3.4 Consequences of Conflicts 48
3.5 External Environment to Ethnicity 50
4 Ethnicity and African States: Case Studies 57
4.1 Introduction 57
4.2 Case studies (Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia,
Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi) 58
5 Positive Sides to Ethnicity 91
5.1 Introduction 91
5.2 Ethnicity, historicity and social change 93
5.3 Ethnicity and justice 97
5.4 Ethnicity and democracy 99
5.5 Ethnicity and economic welfare 104
6 Conclusions
Bibliography 111
Index 117
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