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Title
Depoliticised ethnicity in Tanzania: a structural and historical Narrative |
Full text
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6841800; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6841800; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/6841800/file/6841802 |
Date
2014 |
Author(s)
Malipula, Mrisho |
Abstract
Much of the literature on ethnicity in Africa regards ethnicity as a central cleavage and associates its politicisation with civil war and deteriorating socio-economic conditions. Tanzanian society is not structured by this cleavage, making it an outlier among African states. Despite the negative impact of politicised ethnicity, little is known of the circumstances through which it germinates and comes to have negative consequences, or how it can be suppressed in Africa. The present article attempts a comprehensive analysis of the structural and historical factors that have made the move away from politicisation of ethnicity in Tanzania possible. It provides an eclectic structural and historical explanation that attributes lack of ethnic salience in Tanzanian politics to a particular ethnic structure, to certain colonial administrative and economic approaches, and to a sustained nation-building ethos. The argument results from a critical analysis of secondary material on ethnicity and the politics of Tanzania. |
Subject(s)
Cultural Sciences; Tanzania; ethnic salience; nation-building; politicisation of ethnicity; ethnicity |
Language
eng |
Type of publication
journalArticle; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Format
application/pdf |
Source
AFRIKA FOCUS; ISSN: 0772-084X |
Rights
I have transferred the copyright for this publication to the publisher; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Repository
Gent - University of Gent
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