The multicultural states of East Africa / by Audrey I. Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984, author.

Series:

Keith Callard lectures ; series 3.

Keith Callard lectures / Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University ; series III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tribes--Africa, East.

Tribes.

Africa, East--Politics and government.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Québec] : Published for the Centre by McGill-Queen's University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does "TRIBALISM" mean in the modern world? How does it affect the formation of political parties and the competition for office in the central governments of developing countries? What are the difficulties in modernizing local government and rural agricultural in countries where there are marked differences in language and political organization between different groups? The author examines the special political and economic problems which face the new East African states of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, taking Uganda, where she lived for five years, as a case study. Her final chapter describes the forces making for national consciousness and a sense of national identity in modern Africa, and the part played by the elite in these movements.

Contents:

I. Ethnic diversity in the new East African states

II. Independence and the new ethnic rivalries: Uganda as a case study

III. Rural developments in a multicultural state

IV. Integrating forces.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-117) and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-9146-X

OCLC:

887635820