State Versus Ethnic Claims African Policy Dilemmas
- Boulder Westview Press 1983
- x, 356 p. 24 cm.
- Westview Special Studies on Africa .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction Managing competing state and ethnic claims / Donald Rothchild and Victor A. Olorunsola Francophone nations and English-speaking states : imperial ethnicity and African political formations / Ali A. Mazrui Part II. State claims and their implications for ethnic relations The state and society in Africa : ethnic stratification and restratification in historical and comparative perspective / René Lemarchand Problems and prospects of state coherence / Goran Hyden Ethnicity versus the state : the dual claims of state coherence and ethnic self-determination / John Stone The state and ethnicity : integrative formulas in Africa / Henry Bienen The manipulation of ethnicity : South Africa in comparative perspective / Heribert Adam A response to Heribert Adam, and a rebuttal / Pierre L. van den Berghe and Heribert Adam Part III. The claims of ethnic groups Modernization, ethnic competition, and the rationality of politics in contemporary Africa / Robert H. Bates Collective demands for improved distributions / Donald Rothchild Comparative claims to political sovereignty : Biafra, Katanga, Eritrea / Crawford Young Part IV. Policies to manage competing claims African public policies on ethnic autonomy and state control / Donald Rothchild and Victor A. Olorunsola The state, public policy and the mediation of ethnic conflict in Africa / Edmond J. Keller Part V. The dialectic of autonomy and control Federalism and politics of compromise / J. Isawa Elaigwu and Victor A. Olorunsola Geoethnicity and the marign of autonomy in the Sudan / Dunstan M. Wai The Ogaadeen question and changes in Somali identity / David Laitin.
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Minorities -- Government policy -- Africa. Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- Africa -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.