Table of Contents:
  • 1. General Introduction / E. Ike Udogu
  • 2. Ethnicity and Theory in African Politics / E. Ike Udogu
  • 3. Ethnicity and Political Economy of Africa: A Conceptual Analysis / Kelechi A. Kalu
  • 4. The State and Ethnicity in Africa / Julius O. Ihonvbere
  • 5. The Ethnic Dimensions of Nigeria's Post-Annulment Crisis: Case Studies from the South / Olufemi Vaughan
  • 6. Ethnic Politics and the Decay of the State in Kenya / F. Wafula Okumu
  • 7. The Ekutay: Ethnic Cabal and Politics in Sierra Leone / Alfred B. Zack-Williams
  • 8. The Limits and Possibilities of Conflict-Reduction Strategies in Africa's Polyethnic States / John Boye Ejobowah
  • 9. Western Discourse and Socio-Political Pathology of Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa / Peyi Soyinka-Airewele.