While some have hailed the willingness of the South African government to arrest popular former President Jacob Zuma as a victory for constitutional fidelity in Africa, there is a much darker side to ...
Just as the inhabitants of Scandinavia and the Mediterranean countries must be considered as two extreme poles of the same anthropological reality, so should the Negroes of East and West Africa be ...
On a work trip to Kenya nearly three decades ago, Cecelia Gore was bombarded with questions about her African ethnicity. Her tall, statuette frame prompted guesses about whether Gore was Maasai, an ...
Posner's important new book is the best recent work on ethnic politics in Africa and should be read by anyone interested in ethnicity and contemporary Africa. In prose always clear and free of jargon, ...
From invention to ambiguity : the persistence of ethnicity in Africa / François G. Richard and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Shapen signs : pottery techniques, indexicality, and ethnic identity in the Saalum, ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Africans do not negotiate their ethnic identity. Like the British or Spaniards -- who are first and foremost Scots, Welsh, or Catalans before they claim their national ...
Ethnic disparities in stroke outcomes persist in the UK, with significant differences in care and survival rates among groups. Black African and Caribbean participants had lower thrombosis rates but ...
Many assume that ethnic identity plays the main role in holding African political parties together. Yet as Elischer shows in this careful analysis of ten African countries, the picture is more ...