The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends -- Ali Mazrui, Victor Olorunsola, Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai. In a real sense, then, as editors we owe a lot to Dunstan and Ali for their intellectual stimulation and for encouraging us to pursue a follow-up to ~.f.2l.i::. ,lla .Qt Cultyral ~Natignalism .in A..f'.da
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This volume juxtaposes the competing claims of the formal political system and of ethnic groups in African societies and focuses on the state and its implications for ethnicity; the claims of ethnic groups; the policies to manage competing claims; and the dialectic of autonomy and control.
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Foreword -- Part I -- Introduction -- Part II -- State Claims and Their Implications for Ethnic Relations -- Part III -- The Claims of Ethnic Groups -- Part IV -- Policies to Manage Competing Claims -- Part V -- The Dialectic of Auton~ and Control -- Index -- List of Contributors.
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ISBN
9780367288730
Publisert
2019-10-02
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
840 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
356

Om bidragsyterne

Donald Rothchild is professor of political science, University of California at Davis. He has been visiting Fulbright Lecturer in Political Science at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; senior lecturer in government at the University of Nairobi, Kenya; and visiting Ford Professor of Political Science at the University of Zambia. He is author of Politics of Integration: An East African Documentary (1968) and coauthor of Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa (1978). Victor Olorunsola is now chairman and professor in the Department of Political Science at Iowa State University. He has edited and contributed to The Politics of Cultural Sub-Nationalism in Africa (1972) and written Societal Reconstruction in Two African States (1977).