Ethnicities and Tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa Opening Old Wounds
This book proposes new avenues for understanding tribal allegiance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much research on ethnicity and cultural pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa falsely equates the term "tribe" with "ethnicity" and obscures the differences between Sub-Sa
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S. N. Sangmpam
Ethnicities and Tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa Opening Old Wounds
S. N. Sangmpam Syracuse University Syracuse, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-50199-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50200-7
ISBN 978-3-319-50200-7 (eBook)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I want to thank professors Salikoko Mufwene of the University of Chicago and Valentin Mudimbe of Duke University for their very helpful comments on the manuscript. I alone, however, bear the responsibility for any error of conceptualization and interpretation.
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CONTENTS
1 Introduction
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2 Tribe, Ethnicity, and Colonial Rule
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3 The Particularity of Tribal Allegiance in SSA
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4 The Profusion of Tribes as a Determinant Factor in SSA
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5 Tribe is not Ethnicity: Anti-Tribe and Pro-Ethnicity Arguments are Untenable
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6 Tribe Is Not a Component of Ethnicity
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7 Tribal Allegiance and the Overstated Role of the Colonial State
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8 Precolonial History and the Saliency and Persistence of Tribal Allegiance
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9 Conclusion: Why Does it Matter?
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Bibliography
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Index
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LIST
Table 4.1 Table 4.2
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TABLES
Suggested higher ranking of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in number of tribes, according to Price (1989) Actual subregional distribution of tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa
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CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Abstract The Introduction defines the study problem. It describes how the two issues of the nature and origin of t
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