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Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Africa : Opportunities and Challenges.
In most of Africa, there is evidence of politicised inter-ethnic rivalry and ethnic mobilisation to acquire, maintain or monopolise power as competition for resources intensify. This volume demonstrates how ethnic diversity can be managed at a number of levels in order to improve the lives of citize...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Twaweza Communications,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In most of Africa, there is evidence of politicised inter-ethnic rivalry and ethnic mobilisation to acquire, maintain or monopolise power as competition for resources intensify. This volume demonstrates how ethnic diversity can be managed at a number of levels in order to improve the lives of citizens. As the contributors show, ethnicity as an identity is fluid and malleable. It can be deconstructed in order to reduce its saliency. Evidently, strong ethnic affliation has also been viewed as a major barrier to human and economic development although ethnically bound welfare organisations do inf. |
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| Notas: | Abolishing the first-past-the-post system of governance. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789966028068 9966028064 9789966028044 9966028048 1283063670 9781283063678 9786613063670 6613063673 9966028056 9789966028051 |