Books Reviewed in The Sidama Concern Books Reviews Vol. Nova Science Publishers, 1997.180 pp. Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa , by Seyoum Y. Hameso . Ethnicity is beautiful.
Ethnicity is the people .
As a crowning glory ethnicity deserves a state an ethnic nation-state . The ethnic nation-state will be the final remedy against constant instability in Africa, because this type of political entity has its roots in the history of authentic ethnic nations on African soil. The author is a London-based economist with ethnic roots among the Sidama people. He is also an activist in exile for the cause of Sidama self-determination and liberation from the predominance of the Ethiopian central state. Hameso s argument is not new.