Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

✍ Scribed by Matthijs Bogaards; Matthias Basedau; Christof Hartmann

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 200
Series: Democratization Special Issues
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other socio-cultural attributes. More than a hundred political parties have been dissolved, suspended or denied registration on these grounds. This book documents the experience with ethnic party bans in Africa, traces its origins, examines its record, and answers the question whether ethnic party bans are an effective and legitimate instrument in the prevention of ethnic conflict.

This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity a

📁 Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation

✍ Sebastian Elischer 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya, and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Bu

Africans and Africa in the Bible: An Eth

📁 Africans and Africa in the Bible: An Ethnic and Geographic Approach

✍ Tim Welch 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Oasis International Ltd NFP 🌐 English

Many people believe that Christianity or the Bible are Western, imported into Africa in the last couple centuries by European and North American missionaries. However, there are Africans and African places mentioned throughout the Bible, which this work identifies and explains thoroughly. African

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In

📁 Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa (Eastern African Studies)

✍ Thomas Spear (editor), Richard Waller (editor) 📂 Library 📅 1993 🏛 Ohio University Press 🌐 English

Everyone “knows” the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania. But many people who identity themselves as Maasai, or who speak Maa, are not pastoralist at all, but farmers and hunters. Over time many different people ha

Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In

📁 Being Maasai: Ethnicity and Identity In East Africa (Eastern African Studies)

✍ Thomas Spear (editor), Richard Waller (editor) 📂 Library 📅 1993 🏛 Ohio University Press 🌐 English

Pentecostal Theology in Africa (African

📁 Pentecostal Theology in Africa (African Christian Studies Series (Africs))

✍ Clifton R. Clarke (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Pickwick Publications 🌐 English

Pentecostal Theology in Africa is a collection of essays that explore the theology of African Pentecostalism from various vantage points. The theological focus of the volume is timely as African Pentecostalism, though well researched, is rarely given a thorough theological elucidation. The boo

Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Afri

📁 Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Africa, Book 2: Violence & Ethnicity (Eastern African Studies)

✍ Bruce Berman, John Lonsdale 📂 Library 📅 1992 🏛 Ohio University Press 🌐 English

<DIV>This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the authors have been exploring since 1976. <BR