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Ethnicity & democracy in Africa
1. Ethnicity Political aspects Africa
I. Berman, Bruce (Bruce J.) II. Eyoh, Dickson, 1954- III. Kymlicka, Will
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Contributors
BRUCE J. BERMAN is Professor of Political Studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (1990) and, with John Lonsdale, of Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (1992). His recent publications include Ethnicity, Patronage and the African State: the politics of uncivil nationalism, African Affairs, 1998; African States, Bureaucratic Culture and Computer Fixes (co-authored with W.J. Tettey), Public Administration and Development, 2001; and Critical Perspectives on Politics and Socio-Economic Development in Ghana (co-edited with W.J. Tettey and Korbla Puplampu), 2003. He was president of the Canadian Association of African Studies in 199091 and is vice-president and president-elect of the African Studies Association.
LONARD NSANDA BULELI received his doctorate from Laval University for a political history of Maniema in the 20th century. He was director of the Institut suprieur pdagogique de Kindu from 1993 to 1999, and Professor of History in the Institut suprieur pdagogique de Bukavu from 1983 to 1994. He recently published Le Maniema, de la guerre de IAFDL la guerre du RCD, Politique africaine, 2001; and his book, La bataille de Kindu was published in the collection Cahiers africaines in 2003.
MAMADOU DIOUF received his Ph.D. from the Universit Paris I Sorbonne. He is Professor of History and African American and African Studies and Director of the African Initiative Studies program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His books include Le Kajoor au 19me Sicle: Pouvoir Ceddo et Conqute Coloniale (1990), Histoire du Sngal (2001) and (with D. Cruise OBrien et M. C. Diop) La Construction de lEtat au Sngal (2002).
JOHN BOYE EJOBOWAH is an assistant professor in the Global Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. He specializes in making normative analysis of practical claims to equality and of constitutional and institutional arrangements for accommodating such claims. His book, Competing Claims to Recognition in the Nigerian Public Sphere, was published in December 2001 by Lexington Books (Lanham, MD and Oxford).
PETER EKEH received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and is currently Professor of Sociology and former chair of African American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was formerly head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and chair of Ibadan University Press. He was a Visiting Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington in 19889. His publications include Social Exchange Theory (1974) and he co-edited with Eghosa Osaghae, Federal Character and Federalism in Nigeria (1989).
DICKSON EYOH is Associate Professor of Political Science and African Studies and past Director of African Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on the state and ethnic politics in Africa. His recent publications include The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century African History (Routledge, 2003), co-edited with Paul Zeleza.
TOYIN FALOLA is the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals; co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History; and editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the series Culture and Customs of Africa (Greenwood Press). He has received various awards and honors, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, the Chancellor Council Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence. His students and colleagues have presented him with a Festschrift edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola.
CHERYL HENDRICKS earned a Ph.D. in Government and International Studies from the University of South Carolina, and is currently Lecturer in Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She was a post-doctoral fellow in 200102 at the Frederick Douglass Institute of African and AfricanAmerican Studies at the University of Rochester.
BOGUMIL JEWSIEWICKI Professor of History at Laval University, Quebec, holds the Canada Research Chair in the comparative history of memory. He is a research fellow at the Centre detudes africaines at CNRS/EHESS in Paris. His most recent book is Mami wata. La peinture urbaine au Congo (Paris, Gallimard, 2003). He also edited with Richard Banks Politique africaine no. 84, 2001 on the war in the Congo.
WILL KYMLICKA is the author of five books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), and Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001). He is also the editor of The Rights of Minority Cultures (1995), and co-editor of Ethnicity and Group Rights (1997), Citizenship in Diverse Societies (2000), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? (2001), and Language Rights and Political Theory (2003). He is a Professor of Philosophy at Queens University, and a Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest.
JOHN LONSDALE is Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Professor in African History. His most recent publication is Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration (2003), edited with Atieno Odhiambo. He is currently working on the documentation of Kenyas decolonization for the British Documents on the End of Empire series, and, with Bruce Berman, on the joint intellectual biography of Jomo Kenyatta and Louis Leakey in their rival constructions of the Kikuyu. He was president of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom in 200001.
