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Title: Front Matter
Source: African Affairs, Vol. 109, No. 434 (Jan., 2010)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40388443
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Title: Front Matter
Source: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des tudes Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 2
(2007)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380209
3.
Title: Bibliography
Author(s): Terry A Barringer
Source: African Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 387 (Apr., 1998), pp. 291-295
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/723283
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Title: Books Received
Source: Africa Today, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1998), pp. 145-151
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4187213
5.
Title: Front Matter
Source: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue: Cultural Variation and Social
Change in Southern Ethiopia: Comparative Approaches (2000)
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931252
6.
Title: Languages in Lifelong Education for Third World Development
Author(s): Gerry Abbott
Source: Development in Practice, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 216-222
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4029377
7.
Title: OROMOV V ETIOPII A DIASPOE: MEZI ETNICKM FEDERALISMEM A FRUSTROVANM
NACIONALISMEM
Author(s): JAN ZHOK
Source: esk lid, Ro. 97, s. 4 (2010), pp. 401-417
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/42640362
Abstract: The Oromo nationalism becomes one of the most sensitive issues within Ethiopian studies or
those groups of social scientists dealing with socio-political development of contemporary Ethiopia. On one
hand, especially Oromo authors from the diaspora are very active in redefining and reinventing of
Ethiopia's history, on the other hand, mainly Western social scientist tend to analyze Ethiopia's ethnic
problm in broader perspectives. The aim of this study is to present some arguments which modify
perceptions on the Oromio nationalism as a homogeneous movement heading to independent Oromia.
According to my own fieldwork and by studying contemporary scholarly works I came to a conclusion that
there are many strategies within Ethiopia which the Oromo people use in order to coexist with other ethnic
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groups in Ethiopia and that the will to secede is rather minor phenomenon. Reasons can be found in a
complex nature of the Oromo society where many other variables besides ethnicity come into discussion
with religion being probably the most important one. That is why I have used examples from both Muslim
Oromos as well as Christian Oromos to support my arguments.
8.
Title: "The Other": Precursory African Conceptions of Democracy
Author(s): Matthew Todd Bradley
Source: International Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 407-431
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3699757
Abstract: Democracy is a configuration of governance molded by the general values, biases, prejudices,
and nuances of a given culture. Individuals in Western countries typically identify with the state as reflecting
the desires of the body politic. However, in the African world, including Northeastern Africa (or the Middle
East as it is labeled in Western literature), identity is primarily reflected in one's ethnicity, religion, and
communal adaptations and traditions. That is, the state's conception of governance is not always congruent
with the heterogeneous peoples of a particular nation-state. As a result, ways of governance and
perceptions of the "good" life are often conflicting at the local, state, and national levels. These clashing
ideas are viewed with incertitude and trepidation in the Western world of democracies. Thus, Western
democracies label non-Western democratic experiments as "the other." Hence, without a more holistic
understanding of why ethnicity, religion, and communal attachments are so salient in non-Western
societies, Western democracies limit the "democratic playing field" as well as circumscribe cooperative,
enduring relationships with "the other." A reappraisal of democracy as a form of governance is needed to
find a paradigm that is more suitable to the context in which various African nation-states exist. That is, one
size does not and should not fit all.
9.
Title: Ethnicity and Economic Well-Being: The Case of Ghana
Author(s): Isaac Addai and Jelena Pokimica
Source: Social Indicators Research, Vol. 99, No. 3 (December 2010), pp. 487-510
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40927608
Abstract: In the context of decades of successful economic reforms in Ghana, this study investigates
whether ethnicity influences economic well-being (perceived and actual) among Ghanaians at the microlevel. Drawing on Afro-barometer 2008 data, the authors employs logistic and multiple regression
techniques to explore the relative effect of ethnicity on economic well-being. Results demonstrate that
ethnicity is an important determinant of both measures of people's economic well-being (perceived and
actual) in Ghana. Ethnicity tends to have both negative and positive effect on economic well-being among
different ethnic groups and different sub-sample. For instance, for three ethnic groups (Akans, GaAdangbes and Ewe/Anglo), ethnicity predicts lower level of economic wellbeing for rural residents, whereas
for Akans, it minimizes the risk of deprivation in the urban setting. Findings from this study do not support
the idea that ethnicity may be less relevant in shaping people's well-being in an era of economic reforms in
a society like that of Ghana. Detailed policy implications of the study are discussed emphasizing the need
to develop ethnic-specific development programs to complement the on-going reforms as part of the
country's decentralization efforts.
10.
Title: Bibliography
Author(s): Terry A Barringer
Source: African Affairs, Vol. 98, No. 390 (Jan., 1999), pp. 135-144
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/723696
11.
Title: Nation Because of Differences
Author(s): Clara A. B. Joseph
Source: Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32, No. 3, Nationalism (Autumn, 2001), pp. 57-70
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820424
12.
Title: The Struggle for Human Rights in Africa
Author(s): Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Source: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des tudes Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 3,
Rethinking Rights in Africa: The Struggle for Meaning and the Meaning of the Struggle / Redfinition des
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droits en Afrique: Le combat pour leur trouver un sens et le sens du combat (2007), pp. 474-506
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380100
Abstract: Le but de cet article est d'explorer les changements rcents observs dans le domaine des droits
de la personne en Afrique. Il dclare que la lutte pour, la reconnaissance et la mise en pratique des droits
de la personne se sont dveloppes et largies ces dernires annes malgr les difficults permanentes et
les violations gnralises des droits de la personne, commises non seulement par Vtat mais aussi par
les acteurs de la socit civile. La tapisserie complexe et contradictoire et la trajectoire des droits de la
personne sont analyses dans les contextes constamment changeants de la dmocratisation, de la
mondialisation, de la rgionalisation et de la militarisation qui ont collectivement structur les conomies
politiques en Afrique depuis les annes 1990. La question du discours des droits de la personne en Afrique
est elle aussi examine, lorsque certains dbats sur les gnrations et la hirarchie des droits sont passs
en revue. En outre, l'article se penche sur le rle de Vtat et de la socit dans le dveloppement et le
sabotage des normes Rappliquant aux droits de la personne. /// This article seeks to explore the recent
changes that have occurred in Africa's human rights landscape. It argues that struggles for, recognition of,
and the practice of human rights have grown and expanded in recent years in the midst of continuing
challenges and widespread human rights violations by both state and civil society actors. The complex and
contradictory tapestry and trajectory of human rights is analyzed in the shifting contexts of democratization,
globalization, regionalization, and militarization, which collectively have structured African political
economies since the 1990s. The question of human rights discourse in Africa is also examined by revisiting
some of the debates about the generations and hierarchy of rights. Furthermore, the article looks at the
role of the state and society in developing or undermining human rights norms.
13.
Title: Comparing the African American And Oromo Movements in the Global Context
Author(s): Asafa Jalata
Source: Social Justice, Vol. 30, No. 1 (91), Race, Security & Social Movements (2003), pp. 67-111
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768167
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Title: Conquest, Tyranny, and Ethnocide against the Oromo: A Historical Assessment of Human Rights
Conditions in Ethiopia, ca. 1880s-2002
Author(s): Mohammed Hassen
Source: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 9, No. 3, Special Issue: The Oromo in Ethiopian
Studies: Confronting Challenges to Politically Engaged Scholarship (2002), pp. 15-49
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931279
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Title:
Author(s): Semir Yusuf
Source: African Affairs, Vol. 109, No. 434 (Jan., 2010), pp. 171-172
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40388460
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Title: The Languages of Ethiopia: A New Lexicostatistic Classification and Some Problems of Diffusion
Author(s): M. L. Bender
Source: Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 5 (May, 1971), pp. 165-288
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30029540
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Title:
Author(s): Seyoum Hameso
Source: Northeast African Studies, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue: Cultural Variation and Social
Change in Southern Ethiopia: Comparative Approaches (2000), pp. 209-212
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41931263
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Title:
Author(s): Seyoum Hameso
Source: Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des tudes Africaines, Vol. 41, No. 2
(2007), pp. 375-377
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40380241
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