Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa

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: Ohio University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2004
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0821415700
• | ISBN-13: 9780821415702