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Ethnicity and the state in Eastern Africa / edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis.

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Ethnicity and the state in Eastern Africa / edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis.
Publication
Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998.

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  • Mohamed-Salih, Margaret A.
  • Markakis, John
  • Salih, Mohamed Abdel Rahim M. (Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed)
  • Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
  • Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Description
208 p. : map; 25 cm.
Summary
"Anathematized and outlawed by African nationalism early in the postcolonial period, ethnicity has now eclipsed nationalism. It has proved by far the most potent force for political mobilization. The studies included in this volume provide ample evidence of the potency of ethnicity as the basis for political mobilization. The authors focus on ethnicity's relationship to the state, a manifestly political matter, and try to account for the twists and turns that mark the history of this relationship in the postcolonial era. They consider a variety of factors (economic, social, cultural, religious) that account for the politicization of ethnicity and the volatility of its relationship with the state in Eastern Africa."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Ethnicity > Africa, Eastern
  • Africa, Eastern > Ethnic relations > Congresses
  • Africa, Eastern > Politics and government > 1960- > Congresses
  • Africa, Eastern > Politics and government > 1960-
  • Africa, Eastern > Ethnic relations
Note
  • "This collection of essays is the outcome of a workshop on Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa, organized jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa ... held in Addis Ababa from 3 to 5 June 1996."--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Linking the future to the past, ethnicity and pluralism / Martin Doornbos -- Ethnicity and democracy, a viable alliance? / Eva Poluha -- Tigra, the birth of a nation within the Ethiopian polity / Adhana H. Adhana -- Towards identifying some of the moral components of an Oromo national identity / P.T.W. Baxter -- Power and the discourse of ethnicity in Sudan / Jay O'Brien -- Political narratives and identity formation in post-1989 Sudan / M.A. Mohamed Salih -- Ethnicity as a mode of conflict regulation / A.B.C. Ocholla-Ayayo -- Rise of politicized ethnicity among the Oromo in Ethiopia / Paulos Chanie -- Afar ethnicity in Ethiopian politics / Ali Said -- Amhara ethnicity in the making / Tegegne Teka -- Politics of identity, the case of the Gurage in Ethiopia / John Markakis -- Emissaries for conflict management among the Zaghawa on the Sudan-Chad border / Sharif Harir -- Dynamics of ethnicity, a case study from the Western Bagamoyo district in Tanzania / Helena Jerman -- Ethnopolitics and the State, lessons from Uganda / E.F. Byarugaba -- Neutralizing ethnicity in Uganda / Frank Emmanuel Muhereza and Peter Omurangi Otim.
ISBN
9171064184 (pbk.)
OCLC
39945133
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library