Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- A Prologue to Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Africa -- Political inclusion and minority rights -- Interventions to empower youth economically -- Education -- Nationhood, national cohesion and integration -- Interventions in the land sector -- Notes -- Conceptualizing Ethnicity -- Ethnic Pluralism and National Governance in Africa: A Survey -- Introduction -- Global resurgence of ethnic claims -- Misunderstanding ethnic reality in Africa and the solution for it -- National governance under conditions of ethnic pluralism in Africa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- What Do We Share?From the Local to the Global, and Back Again -- Us and them -- Crocodiles and tree trunks -- Non-compatible input? -- Identities -- Origin stories and hierarchies -- Different colours, different races -- The origin of black and white people in Africa -- The rich and the poor -- The children of Eve -- A world in need of a future -- Notes -- References -- Production of Ethnic Identity in Kenya -- Introduction -- Ethnic identity and ethnicity -- Evolution of the Kalenjin ethnic identity -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Links Between African Proverbs and Sayings and Ethnic Diversity -- 1. African proverbs and sayings that describe and analyze the present reality in Africa today -- 2. African proverbs and sayings and stories that promote peacebuilding and reconciliation in Africa today -- 3. Telling our African stories of forgiveness, justice, reconciliation and peacemaking -- (Over)riding the Rainbow. Ethnic Diversity and the Kenyan Creative Economy -- Part One: Overriding the rainbow -- Part Two: Riding the rainbow -- Conclusion -- References -- Leveraging Africa's Diversity for an improved Image and Branding -- Introduction -- Africa's diversity: A blessing or curse?.

Africa's branding and image building -- Why brand Africa? -- To what extent does Africa need branding? -- Ethnic diversity tools for branding -- Conclusion -- References -- Ethnicity in Politics -- Ethnic Diversity, Democratization and Nation-Building in Ghana -- Introduction -- Focus of paper -- The challenge of nation-building amidst ethnic diversity -- The meanings of nation-building -- Elements of nation-building as identity formation and governance -- Strategies employed in Ghana to manage ethnic relations and promote nation-building -- Adoption of affirmative action policies and programs -- Use of a mandatory constitutional framework for nation-building -- Use of socio-economic development as a strategy for nation-building -- Commitment to fairness in the distribution of national development -- Development and promotion of a national peace architecture -- Use of traditional social mediators -- Teaching conflict prevention and conflict resolution skills to youths -- Institutionalization of public educational programmes -- Establishment of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commissions -- Creating an educational system that produces nationalists -- Adopting a policy of multiculturalism -- Abolishing the first-past-the-post system of governance -- Expediting decentralization -- Future directions in nation-building -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Ethnic Diversity in East Africa: The Tanzanian Case and the Role of Kiswahili Language as a Unifying Factor -- Introduction -- Internal and historical factors -- Kiswahili as an identity and unifying factor in Tanzania -- Colonial administration and promotion of Kiswahili -- The process of building the nation after independence in Tanzania -- Institutional development -- Ujamaa philosophy and villagization policy -- Kiswahili as a language of Eastern Africa -- The viability of Kiswahili in East Africa.

The current challenges -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Critical Reflections on the Challenges and Prospects of Ethnic Diversity Management in Democratization -- Introduction -- Challenging coterminality as a central legitimizing principle -- Effective management of ethnic diversity -- The primacy of the national interest in citizen transformation -- Challenges of managing diversity -- Conclusion -- References -- Media and National Identity: Should National Media be Relegated to the Backseat? -- Introduction -- Personal identity and national identity -- Media and shaping identities -- Overview of media development in Uganda -- Is national media still relevant in the globalization context? -- Cosmopolitanism and national identity -- Computer mediated communication and online identities -- Community media, ethnicity and conflict -- Is Public Service Broadcasting in Uganda still of relevance? -- Conclusion -- References -- Ethnic Diversity Background and Issues: The Case of Rwanda -- Introduction -- The construction of a nation: an overview of Rwanda before colonization -- Deconstructing of monarchical order as colonialism takes over -- Disconnecting with the past -- The triumph and trap of ethnic ideology -- The first and second Republics in Rwanda (1962-1994) -- Genocide and challenges of rebuilding Rwanda: No easy walk to the reconstruction -- Social diversity is the wealth of the nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- The Challenges of Ethnicity, Multiparty Democracy and State Building in Multiethnic States in Africa: Experiences from Kenya -- Introduction: Ethnicity and Multiparty Politics in Kenya -- Meaning and application of ethnicity -- Critical viewpoints about ethnicity in Africa -- Ethnic conflicts and the nature and role of African states.

The way forward: How to make multiparty democracy work in multiethnic African states -- Notes -- References -- A Political Economy of Land Reform in Kenya: the Limits and Possibilities of Resolving Persistent Ethnic Conflicts -- Introduction -- Land policy in Kenya: A short history -- Post-independence land reform -- The shifting priorities of land reform -- Macro-economic policy and the land question -- Popular demands for land reform -- Accumulation from above -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Epilogue - Emerging Issues in Managing the Challenges and Opportunities of Ethnic Diversity in East Africa: Is Good Governance the Destiny? -- Introduction -- On conceptualizing, and problems of investigating, ethnicity in Africa -- Is political ethnicity an initiation of the political elites, or are they just responding to pressures from below? -- Under what conditions does ethnic tranquility/cooperation obtain? -- What incentive structures can alter the calculus of political leaders or pressures from below from employing ethnic mobilization as a tool of negotiating for status, power and resource allocation? -- If ethnicity has had negative political outcomes, how can it be harnessed into a resource for economic development? -- Conclusion: On the need to invest in institutions of governance -- Notes -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover.