The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa
By: E Ike Udogu
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781315186887
Subjects: Ethnicity; Ethnicité; Aspect politique; Political aspects
Description: "This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international politics, many political actors would rather avoid it. In the past, nationalists have blamed ethnic chauvinists for fanning the embers of ethnicity, but today they realize they may have underestimated its prominence in African politics."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 General Introduction; title: chapter 2 Ethnicity and Theory in African Politics; title: chapter 3 Ethnicity and Political Economy of Africa: A Conceptual Analysis; title: chapter Introduction; title: chapter Understanding the nature of state domination in Africa; title: chapter The material basis of ethnic consciousness and politics[sup(4)]; title: chapter Conclusion; title: chapter Acknowledgments; title: chapter 5 The Ethnic Dimensions of Nigeria's Post- Annulment Crisis: Case Studies from the South; title: chapter 6 Ethnic Politics and the Decay of the State in Kenya; title: chapter 7 The Ekutay Ethnic: Cabal and Politics in Sierra Leone; title: chapter Introduction; title: chapter Liberal democracy and its limitations; title: chapter Strategies for conflict reduction; title: chapter Possibilities of conflict reduction: an overview; title: chapter Conclusion: looking ahead; title: chapter Acknowledgments; title: chapter References; title: chapter 9 Western Discourse and the Socio-Political Pathology of Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa; title: chapter Selected Bibliography.