Table of Contents- Ethnicity in Africa

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Table of Contents

	Preface	v
1	Overview	1
1.1	Introduction	1
1.2	Ethnicity in Africa	3
1.3	Ethnicity defined: concept and theory	7
1.4	Theoretical perspectives on ethnicity	11
2	Ethnic Groups in Africa: The Main Features	19
2.1	Introduction	19
2.2	Collective community with physical space	20
2.3	Language	23
2.4	Culture, social and political organisations	30
3	Political Economy of Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts	35
3.1	Introduction	35
3.2	Ethnicity as politics and economics	37
3.3	Ethnic Conflicts	43
3.4	Consequences of Conflicts	48
3.5	External Environment to Ethnicity	50
4	Ethnicity and African States: Case Studies	57
4.1	Introduction	57
4.2	Case studies (Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and Burundi)	58
5	Positive Sides to Ethnicity	91
5.1	Introduction	91
5.2	Ethnicity, historicity and social change	93
5.3	Ethnicity and justice	97
5.4	Ethnicity and democracy	99
5.5	Ethnicity and economic welfare	104
6	Conclusions	107
	Bibliography	111
	Index	117