This is a very useful collection that will hold an important place in the literature for a while to come. ...Those who care about reform, from the AU to Tony Blair's Commission for Africa - will find here a timely and healthy dose of realism which deserves to be widely read. -

• I ETHNICITY and DEMOCRACY IN HISTORICAL and COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Introduction: ethnicity and the politics of democratic nation-building in Africa by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka - Individuals' basic security needs and the limits of democratization in Africa by Peter Ekeh - Ethnicity, bureaucracy and democracy: the politics of trust by Bruce Berman - Nation-building and minority rights: comparing Africa and the West by Will Kymlicka II THE DYNAMICS OF ETHNIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Moral and political argument in Kenya by John Lonsdale - Contesting local citizenship: liberalization and the politics of difference in Cameroon by Dickson Eyoh - The burdens of the past and the challenges of the present: coloured identity and the rainbow nation by Cheryl Hendricks - Reaching the limits of universal citizenship: 'minority' struggles in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway - Ethnicity and Nigerian politics: the past in the Yoruba present by Toyin Falola III ETHNICITY and THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIZATION Hegemonic enterprises and instrumentalities of survival: ethnicity and democracy in Kenya by E.S. Atieno Odhiambo - 'The dog that did not bark, or why Natal did not take off'. Ethnicity and democratization in South Africa: the case of Kwa Zulu Natal by Shula Marks - Jomo Kenyatta and the rise of the ethno-nationalist state in Kenya by Githu Muigai - Between ethnic memories and colonial history: the Democratic Forces Movement of Casamance and the struggle for the independence of Casamance (Senegal) by Mamadou Diouf - Ethnicities as 'first nations' of the Congolese nation-state: some preliminary observations by Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Leonard N'Sanda Buleli - Ethnicity and the politics of democratization in Nigeria by Raufu Mustapha IV ETHNICITY and INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN IN AFRICA Multi-level governance in South Africa by Richard Simeon and Christina Murray - Liberal multi-culturalism and the problems of institutional instability by John Boye Ejobowah - Conclusion: African ethnic politics and the paradoxes of democratic development by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka.