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Author Dersso, Solomon A

Title Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design : a Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa's Multi-ethnic Challenge
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Series Studies in International Minority and Group Rights
Studies in international minority and group rights.
Contents Taking Ethno-Cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; CONTENTS ; CHAPTER I ; INTRODUCTION ; 1.1. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ; 1.2. THE CONCEPT OF MINORITIES ; 1.3. THE FRAMEWORK OF MINORITY RIGHTS DEFENDED IN THIS STUDY
1.4. THE IMPLICATIONS OF A MINORITY RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR DEMOCRATISATION IN AFRICA 1.5. METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY ; 1.6. OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS ; CHAPTER II ; THE ISSUE OF MINORITIES IN AFRICA : DESCRIBING ITS CONTEXT AND UNDERSTANDING ITS NATURE ; 2.1. INTRODUCTION
2.2. THE NATURE AND GENESIS OF ETHNO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN AFRICA 2.2.1. The Pre-colonial Background; 2.2.2. Colonialism: The Emergence of New Patterns of Relations; 2.2.3. Patterns of Ethno-Cultural Diversity Bequeathed to the Post-colonial State; 2.2.3.1. States with a Majority Group; 2.2.3.2. States of Minorities; 2.3. VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF MINORITIES AND THE NATURE OF THEIR CLAIMS ; 2.3.1. Ethno-Cultural Minorities
2.3.2. Ethno-Political Minorities2.3.3. Ethno-National Minorities; 2.3.4. Peripheral Minorities; 2.4. CONCLUSION ; CHAPTER III ; THE ISSUE OF MINORITIES IN THE POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE OF POST -COLONIAL AFRICA ; 3.1. INTRODUCTION ; 3.2. THE IMPERATIVE OF NATION-BUILDING ; 3.2.1. The Flaws and Ultimate Failure of Post-colonial Nation-Building in Africa
3.3. THE INFLUENCE OF THE DOMINANT CONSTITUTIONAL PARADIGM OF THE NATION-STATE 3.3.1. National (Popular) Sovereignty; 3.3.2. The Limits of the Unitarist Conception of National Sovereignty; 3.3.3. The Individual-Rights-Based Conception of the State-Society Relationship; 3.4. THE 'SECOND AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE' AND THE NEGLECT OF THEISSUE OF MINORITIES ; 3.4.1. The Nature of Post-1990 Constitutional Reform
Summary Using a legal and multidisciplinary approach towards empirical and prescriptive analysis of contemporary minority rights standards, this book defends and elaborates a robust minority rights framework for articulating a constitutional design responsive to the claims of ethno-cultural groups in Africa
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Subject Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa
Minorities -- Civil rights -- Africa
Ethnic relations
Minorities -- Civil rights
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
SUBJECT Africa -- Ethnic relations
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004235533
9004235531