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dc.contributor.authorFessha, Yonatan Tesfaye
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-12T08:13:41Z
dc.date.available2013-02-12T08:13:41Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationFessha, Y. (2012). Federalism, territorial autonomy and the management of ethnic diversity in Africa: reading the balance sheet. L'Europe en formation, Spring 363: 265-288en_US
dc.identifier.issn0014-2808
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/534
dc.description.abstractThe history of federalism in Africa is a history of ambivalence. In the run up to independence, federalism was an idea that galvanized several political movements that, following the retreat of colonial powers, emerged to represent the interest of ethnic groups that were anxious about their political status in post colonial Africa. But it was also an idea that was subsequently rejected by those that wield state power and thrown into historical dustbins. Recent developments indicate that the federal idea that was never given a chance to develop and was being strangled at birth is now re-entering the constitutional scene of several African countries. This short article examines how African federations have responded to the ethnic diversity that characterizes their societies. In particular, it examines how the territorial autonomy solution, implicit in these federations, have helped to deal with the challenges of ethnic diversity.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre International de Formation Européenneen_US
dc.rightsCopyright Centre international de formation européenne. The publisher has given permission for the published version to be available.
dc.subjectFederalismen_US
dc.subjectTerritorial Autonomyen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectEthnic diversityen_US
dc.titleFederalism, territorial autonomy and the management of ethnic diversity in Africa: reading the balance sheeten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue


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