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Title: | From 'Imagined Community' to Multicultural Mosaic: 'The Politics of Difference' in Tanzania |
Author: | Kaiser, Paul J. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Journal of Political Science (ISSN 1027-0353) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 89-104 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Tanzania East Africa |
Subjects: | nationalism Politics and Government Economics and Trade Ethnic and Race Relations politics cultural pluralism ethnicity government policy political science |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/103/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Economic and political liberation in Africa has affected fragile national identities constructed over the past thirty or so years. This has led to the reconstruction of different identities and contestations affecting the legitimacy of government institutions in mediating conflict over the distribution of scarce resources. Using Tanzania as a case study, this article examines the relevance of multiculturalism as a solution to the contest between sub-national identities mobilized by the current economic and political reforms. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |