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Ethnicity in Africa: Towards a Positive Approach.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 626 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ethnicity in Africa: Towards a Positive Approach.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
by Hameso Y. Seyoum London: TSC Publications. 1997. 120 pp.

Despite its resilient reality, ethnicity and "tribalism" have not received adequate scholarly commentary in academic discourses in Africa. Nonetheless, Africa still remains a continent dotted with conflicts of various forms, often with ethnic overtones. The result has had a devastating impact on the political and socio-economic development of the continent. In the book under review, Hameso Seyoum attempts a systematic analysis of ethnicity in Africa since the pre-colonial period arguing that emerging nation states must directly confront the issue of ethnicity, irrespective of...

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