The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
Author: John Parker
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 019957247X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa
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Ethnicity In Modern Africa
Author: Brian M. du Toit
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0429726937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifteen essays written for this volume reflect the increasing importance for social scientists of ethnic, rather than physical or tribal, criteria for classifying modern population groups. The authors—from South Africa, the United States, South West Africa (Namibia), Nigeria, and Scotland—cover most of Africa south of the Sahara. They consider the range from large national population groupings to small-scale societies attempting to maintain their social boundaries, and discuss such topics as emergent nationalism, ethnic divisiveness, social distance, voluntary association, and the role of women. The first section is concerned with particular communities, peoples, and ethnic groups, and treats traditional tribal groupings as well as communities delineated on phenotypic grounds. In the second section, the focus turns to modern situations of interaction; the two major themes discussed here are situational ethnicity and situational realignment. The third section deals with color, one of the physical criteria of ethnic identification; here the authors discuss the political and legal implications of a system based on color. The last essay reports on current changes in attitude and organization within the countries of white-ruled southern Africa.
Making Citizens in Africa
Author: Lahra Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107035317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.
Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
Author: Philip Roessler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1107176077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
Author: Alexander Keese
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9004307354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Ethnicity, Democracy and Citizenship in Africa
Author: Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-03-28
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1472440684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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.
Ethnicities and Tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: S. N. Sangmpam
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 331950200X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book proposes new avenues for understanding tribal allegiance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much research on ethnicity and cultural pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa falsely equates the term "tribe" with "ethnicity" and obscures the differences between Sub-Saharan Africa and other regions. It also puts too much emphasis on the role of the colonial state in fostering tribal allegiance. This book challenges these claims and offers an alternate way of understanding tribal allegiance in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Subnationalism in Africa
Author: Joshua Forrest
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781588262271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis examination of the politics of ethnicity and nation-building in Africa stresses the trend towards subnationalist autonomy and away from a singular, state-centric system based on the Western model. Forrest ranges across the continent to explore a variety of subnational movements.
Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Author: Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780815775942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.
Political Parties in Africa
Author: Sebastian Elischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-09
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1107033462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in ten African countries. Sebastian Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed.
