Negative Ethnicity: From Bias to GenocideSeven Stories Press, 5.8.2003 - 80 sivua "Negative ethnicity" is Koigi wa Wamwere’s name for the deep-seated tensions in Africa that the world has seen flare so terrifyingly. The genocide in Rwanda and "ethnic" killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and elsewhere stand out as examples. Wa Wamwere argues that these clashes cannot properly be described as ethnically motivated; ethnicity, a positive distinction, has nothing of the hatred here at work. Negative Ethnicity gives a new picture of the force behind untold deaths on the continent, dispelling the myth of an intractable conflict waged along simple, ancient lines. Negative Ethnicity explains the roots, colonial and pre-colonial, of the current "ethnic" tensions. It goes on to describe how, for most Africans, ethnic identity is ambiguous, and analyzes why that fact is obscured. The culprits are many: chronic poverty, a broken education system, preying dictators, corrupt officials, the colonial legacy of hate, the ongoing exploitation of the West. Negative Ethnicity is both a history and a manual for change, intended to introduce Westerners to the crisis and to give Africans a new understanding of it. Perhaps never before has the problem been addressed with such clarity and insight. |
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Defining Negative Ethnicity | 20 |
Without Boundaries Ethnic Hate | 26 |
The Complicity of the West | 34 |
From Cultural Bias to Genocide | 44 |
The African Legacy | 51 |
Our Turn to Eat The Philosophy of Ethnic Eating | 63 |
Our Turn to Rule Ethnic Power | 74 |
The Lure of Negative Ethnicity | 85 |
The Ethnic Dictator | 117 |
Consequences | 133 |
False Solutions | 157 |
New Directions | 185 |
A Crossroads | 196 |
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About the Author | 207 |
The Propagators | 95 |
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