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Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Africa. Opportunities and Challenges (Paperback)
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Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Africa. Opportunities and Challenges (Paperback)
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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 influence the economic and social life of citizens
especially in the rural areas, In most of Africa, it is through
ethnic identification that competition for influence in the state
and in the allocation of resources becomes apparent. Occasionally,
governments have sought to address this challenge through ethnic
and regional balancing in political appointments. But this does not
always work. Drawing on experiences from Eastern Africa and beyond,
the contributors discuss how ethnic diversity can be a resource for
the region.
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