Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa (Hardcover)

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 the ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.